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How to change tooltip background color in Unity?
In a lot of applications the tooltips are just plain ugly (White text on black background, way too much contrast) or even unreadable (black or dark blue text (Hyperlinks) on black background). I want ...
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How do I enable full-color support in Terminal?
I have a lovely Vim colorscheme (xoria256) and it looks brilliant in GVim, but when I use normal vim in Terminal, the colorscheme is only partially supported -- for example, the default ...
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How to fix unreadable tooltips in Eclipse Helios?
This is what a function tooltip looks like for Eclipse CDT in Ubuntu 10.04 with the default theme:
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There's nothing in Eclipse's General > Appearance > Colors And Fonts preferences settings. Is ...
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How to make selected tab in terminal more prominent
Something about the color scheme changed in 11.04, and now it's very difficult for me to tell which tab is the selected one.
On my screen, the colors look more similar the further down I slouch in ...
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How to calibrate the monitor on an Ubuntu system?
What is the procedure to calibrate the monitor and what software to use?
Edit: I think what I mean is "colour profile" if that's what it is called. I happened to notice that the same photos look very ...
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What is the Ubuntu colour?
I'm sure you know the one I'm talking about, that deep magenta. I would like to know it's RGB value.
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How do I set the background color/pattern in a Nautilus window?
In Previous versions of Ubuntu, I used to go under the edit menu to set the background color of a Nautilus window. I have no idea how to do this in Ubuntu.
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How to make Unity Launcher backlight use one colour?
How to make Unity Launcher backlight use one colour? I want my launcher backlight all coloured with blue..
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How do I change the colors of the Ambiance & Radiance themes?
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and i wanted to change colors in Ambiance/Radiance themes, by default it has orange and i wanted to change it to Blue,
I tried using gnome-color-chooser, but it didn't work?
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What's a simple “colour picker” app for GNOME?
I need a small tool to ‘pick’ a colour anywhere on the screen (so that I basically get the hex code for it). Earlier, I've used KDE's KColorChooser for this.
According to this page, "Gpick" sounds ...
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How do you change your screen's color temperature in Ubuntu?
I edit my photos on my laptop (yes, I know they have crap displays) and I recently had to replace the screen because the old one just randomly died. The old one had decent color reproduction by ...
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Override theme background color for certain applications
When using a custom theme (Equinox Evolution Midnight in my particular case) the manager at System > Preferences > Appearance > Theme > Customize > Colors is indeed reflecting the actual system-wide ...
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Libroffice Colour Palette
The default color palette almost only have hard colors and the alternative software has some basic colors and them several shades.
To obtain the same effect in libreoffice we must change by hand the ...
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Script to display all terminal colors
Throughout the internet I have seen many people with scripts that prints out a bunch of stuff in all the colors defined in ~/.Xdefaults. However when I try to use these, I always get error: Bad ...
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Colorize hardlinks in ls output?
How can I colorize hardlinks myself? Turns out on an old Ubuntu 10.04 I have, this happens by default (same .bashrc and .profile in use), whereas on the newer Ubuntu 12.04 it doesn't.
This is the ...
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How can I make gnome-terminal not transparent?
When I use gnome-terminal the background is annoyingly slightly-transparent. Here you can read the ubuntu.stackexchange.com site through the background.
These are the background options I have, ...
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How can i change the purple background color of Ubuntu plymouth boot screen?
I'd like to change the background color of the purple plymouth bootsplash to another color, how can i do this?
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How can I change the text colour on my desktop icons?
How can I change the text font colour of my icons on my desktop. I have used gnome-color-chooser by choosing "Desktop" panel and changing to white colour on Colorize with but unfortunately, nothing ...
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Highlighting with grep doesn't work in Xterm
I've got a problem with Xterm.
When I use the command
tail -F example.log | grep -a -i -e 'examplestring'
in Xterm the "grepped" strings aren't highlighted in red like they would be in the normal ...
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How can I conditionally change the nautilus background color?
I would like to have the nautilus background color different if the current folder is being managed by git (i.e., if there is a .git directory in it). Any ideas how to do that? Ideal solution would ...
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Accidentally inverted the colour of all windows
I fat fingered a short-cut in Thunderbird and now the colours of all my application windows are inverted. I'm not sure what combination I hit (I was trying for Alt-1). How do I get my colour scheme ...
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Eclipse content-assist popup is unreadable on Ambiance/Radiance theme
I use ubuntu 10.10 and installed the Eclipse indigo from the official eclipse website. It's a java editor (not CDT) and characters on the content assist popup are not readable.
Is there any ...
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How to convert image to CMYK in GIMP?
I am supposed to send some artwork to the printers tomorrow and their guidelines requires it to be CMYK.
I have installed the plugin Separate+ from the 'gimp-plugin-registy' package. I have also ...
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Changing colors for user/computer name and current directory in terminal
Is it possible to change the colors for the user@computer, the current directory and command parts of the terminal? I've already seen similar things with osx users, but I don't know how to do the same ...
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How to change the color themes in gnome 3?
How to change the color themes in gnome 3? Anyone? (Note using 11.10)
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Can't change the Dash Color
I try to change the Dash color from CCSM or MyUnity but I after I choose a color it changes to the default by it self in 2-3 seconds.
using unity 5.12.0
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Menubar text color and firefox black making is unreadable with Ambiance. How do I fix this?
Ever since I purged kubuntu-desktop from my ubuntu installation, my firefox menu bar text changed to black. I now have trouble using firefox with the ambiance theme.
Is there a package or something ...
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How can I change tomboy note's background colour?
How to make Tomboy Notes have a different theme that are easier on the eyes like black font over a lightgrey background rather than a darkgrey font over a white background. I have explored Tomboy's ...
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Is there a command-line tool which returns the colour of the pixel based on screen co-ordinates?
Is there a command-line tool returns the colour value of a pixel, based solely on its screen co-ordinates.
Is there such a tool?
(Also: The tool should not require any user action. It is to run in ...
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How to change the color of the scroll bar?
The scrollbars in Unity are of very low contrast, and I can't notice where the scroll bar bug is just with peripheral vision. I have to look at the scrollbar. With a very 22" monitor, 1920*1080, the ...
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What are the different colors on the unity launcher icons?
Example:
My question is simple. What are the different colors representing in the unity launcher background for each icon. I mean, it seems consistent (firefox is always orange), but it's not ...
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Eclipse colour scheme is terrible in Ubuntu
I have modified my eclipse colour theme to my liking but just cant seem to develop in peace because I keep having to squint and stare at the screen for certain elements. The colour default scheme is ...
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How can I change the TTY colors?
How can I change the standard 8 colors (16 if you count the bright versions) that are used in the various TTYs in Ubuntu 12.04? I'm not talking about the Terminal or XTerm applications, I'm talking ...
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Where can I find an automatic day-night color balance adjuster similar to f.lux/Redshift that works with multiple monitors?
I tried f.lux, and I like what it does (automatically adjust the color balance of your monitors depending on time of day), but it seems to work on only 1 of my monitors.
Can I configure it to work on ...
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How to change the color depth?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a Dell C600 and the highest available resolution is 800x600. From my previous I remember 1024x768 would work after setting the colour depth to 16bit, but there is no ...
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dircolors/ls colors not being displayed correctly using byobu
On my NAS box running Ubuntu 11.04 I'm experiencing an odd issue with dircolors inside byobu. Per the image below, everything works fine outside byobu. The prompt (zsh), vim, and everything else works ...
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Xubuntu - how to restore “default” terminal text coloring
TerminalEmulator is preset to match Xubuntu theme, but it is rather low contrast and I would like to use other theme.
The standard ones, like Tango and Linux Colors are enough, any ideas?
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Using GNU Screen with 256 colors
I recenetly installed GNU screen on a machine I ssh into. How do I get GNU screen to use 256 colors?
So far, I've tried adding the following to my .screenrc:
term screen-256color
and
attrcolor b ...
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What affects the text color in Google Earth?
The text color in Google Earth (installed via Google's package) has recently changed to become unreadable:
It hasn't always been this way, but I don't know what I did that caused it to change.
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Why are the images noisy and low quality system wide? Why do the color profiles not activate?
I'm relatively new to Ubuntu (12.04) and I'm now trying to decide if the system is usable for serious photography work. So far I love Unity and the snappiness of the system but there are some problems ...
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How to change color of unity workspace border, and window resize
Currently running ubuntu 11.10. So I've been doing a lot of work on a new theme to match the physical look of my laptop which is a blue, black, white theme. Obviously orange visuals look out of place. ...
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How to change the color of menu text?
First, take a look at this screenshot.
http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot-4yF1UqRf.1287160366.png
Now, I managed to change the selection color from orange to light gray which is very nice. But now ...
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How do I change the color of the indicator applet to green?
I want to change the indicator app's color from "blue" to "green" again. In 10.04 all notifications were in green, 11.04 now has blue color notification.
How can I change it back to green?
From ...
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How can I colour code my files like on a Mac? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can we have Mac like ‘labels’ on GNOME?
Is there any way I can label my files with a specific colour in my folders? I know that this is possible on a Mac OS.
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How can I print in black and white?
What option should I select in the (evince) print dialog to print in black and white using only the (cheaper) black ink cartridge - not black as a composite of other colours?
The options I see in the ...
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How do I change the icon and text color?
Suddenly all of my icons and the text under the icons became grey in color.
I want the theme to be as it was when I first installed Ubuntu 11.10. The menu color was dark grey and icons were orange or ...
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What can I change with gtkrc-2.0?
We can change breadcrumbs and the sidepane color, but what else can be edited with gtkrc-2.0?
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How to fix an error using a colorscheme for gvim? [closed]
My vim directory:
>:/usr/share/vim$ ls -al
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-09-26 00:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 352 root root 12288 2010-09-25 14:35 ..
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2010-09-25 ...
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What are the standard desktop colors?
What are the standard notification colors in 11.10? I'm writing an app with an AppIndicator, and I'd like it to match the desktop color scheme.
Is there anywhere this stuff is documented? I checked ...
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How to change overlay scrollbar color? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change the color of the scroll bar?
In my /home/myname/.themes/themename/gtkrc file I found this:
style "murrine-scrollbar"
{
bg[SELECTED] = shade (0.6, ...
