Questions tagged [colors]
Questions related to screen/app colour problems on display devices running Ubuntu.
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Black colors in some applications backgrounds
I install KDE on Ubuntu GNOME and set on sddm and again remove full KDE and set to GTK, after do it some apps color black and problem.
I see this problem on Ubuntu store and disk application.
How to ...
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Color calibration greyed out in Ubuntu 19.10?
I'm using an external display with my Asus Vivobook which has an inbuilt display of 1920*1080 resolution. Now, unlike Windows 10 where I could calibrate the inbuilt display by going to Intel graphics ...
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Color Picker For Ubuntu 19.10 (and later releases as well)
EDIT: I use X11 now and I have no problem.
I've seen many apps posted here, but right now in my laptop with 19.10 none of them work.
I've tried Agave, Gpick, and Grabc .
They all give back the ...
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Retrieve background color in ubuntu mate
I am using Ubuntu mate 18.04.3 LTS.
I am quite fond of my background color and would like to use it on another machine. Where can I find the exact color that is used? When I go into the Control ...
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Installed Ubuntu 18.04 the white color is too intense
I've tried googling this before posting this, but I installed Ubuntu on my new SSD and the white color is just way too bright and intense. When I go to Settings>Devices> there is no Color option and ...
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Can I change the default terminal colors?
I don't want to change the default colors as such, I want to use a custom color. For example I want to lighten the blue as it is too dark. I don't want to change it to a different color, but make it ...
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How to take screenshots with light filter enabled
The background color of my website is #0062cc. When using flux (blue light filter software) this color gets darker. I want to use this new darker color as a background color.
I took several ...
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Where do my autocompletion colors come from?
When I ls in a directory, the colors are printed as in the top example. These colors are controlled with Edit → Preferences → Colors → Palette, which I have set to Solarized.
However, I have no idea ...
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Change the gray app background color
A lot of apps have this gray color background. I would like to change the color. I'm using a window manager without a desktop environment ($DESKTOP_SESSION is empty).
Where is the color determined ...
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Color output in the terminal
Is there a way to customize ubuntu terminal in such a way that output of the any command is colorized according to some patterns. In .bashrc I can customize prompt, but I am looking for something ...
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GEdit - Python Console plugin not retaining color settings
I was just fiddling around with GEdit and came across the Python Console in plugins section of it.
It would have been quite useful to do quick calculations while taking notes as I sometimes have to ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 / Gnome 3.28 - How to change default Emoji Font (Noto Color Emoji) to different font?
Ubuntu 18.04 introduced out-of-the-box color emoji support, and it ships with the google noto color emoji font by default.
However i want to replace those emojis with the Blobmojis (https://github....
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Modifying adwaita dark theme on 18.04
im wondering if there is a way to change the adwaita dark theme a little bit i found some really useful info on here about changing dock and top bar components and have successfully changed it to ...
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Colors, color management, calibration two monitors
First of sorry if I get wrong some technical terms.
I am running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Dell laptop E6420 (i5 2520m and intel hd3000) and sometimes I hookup some old Philips monitor (5:4 aspect ratio lol) ...
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How to take a screenshot with colors as they appear in night mode
I often find myself in situations where some images have nicer looking colors in the night-mode. I often want to screenshot them. Unfortunately, what I get is the original image.
Is there any way to ...
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How can I fix the dull colors I am getting in Ubuntu 19.04 Terminal?
I've just recently switched to Ubuntu 19.04 and I am now getting dull colors in terminal but only outside of programs:
In comparison you can see the vivid colors I am used to when I use ranger:
I ...
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colormgr get-devices do not return all display
I have a problem about 'colormgr'
I want to change color profile of all display
but, I am not able to get a device from 'colormgr get-device'
I use
OS : Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
GPU : Radeon pro ...
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Change selectionbox color to match wallpaper
Selectionbox color
As you see in the image the box is brown. The color is from the applications theme, which means that it will always be brown. Is there a way, to make this selection color match ...
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customize plasma notes background color (in Kubuntu)
I'd like to change the background color of my plasma notes.
I know that with knotes is possible change the background color, but I believe that plasma notes are better (I had also problems with knotes)...
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How to change Display color settings Ubuntu?
On Windows I have an "Intel HD Graphics Control Panel" that allows me to change the screen's color settings (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation etc.) I was looking for a similar tool on Ubuntu but ...
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Kdenlive color picker / dropper selects interface instead of video
This problem appears to be specific to Kdenlive so far. On Xubuntu 16.04, using the color picker of e.g. the "White Balance" effect to color correct a video automatically would select a pixel from the ...
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Cannot configure all terminal colors
I am trying to configure my terminal to make all colors visible against a light background. I am using terminator. There seem to be colors that I cannot set. In the following screenshot, you can see a ...
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How to change the background of the terminal through a command [duplicate]
I'd like to change the background color of the Ubuntu terminal emulator to say, red. However, I want to do it using the commandline, like the Windows equivalent color 0F, since I'm making a program ...
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Can't view output of command because of incorrect colors
I am using Ubuntu on WSL and I am trying to get the git status of the current repository.
No issues with the command but I can't read the output text.
If I try to copy the text in those invisible ...
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File Managers - Colors by extension like Q-DIR for Windows
I have to use Windows at work and found Q-DIR, a great alternative to Windows Explorer, with a lot of missing features.
It has a very useful feature that I haven't found on any Linux (GUI) browser (...
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Lost terminal color hi light, getting only one color
I installed ubuntu 18.04 and put arc ambiance as theme. After doing this (or, maybe something more that I not remember) my terminal has only text color(my user name, @, text, things in ls, etc). How ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 night light stuck on
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10. Everything works fine, except on start-up the night light feature causes the screen to start to fade immediately. I can then find no way of turning it ...
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How do I change colors in Zim (wiki editor) running on Kubuntu 18.10?
These are the colors present in Zim which uses GTK
How can I change them to more of my liking? The color for links is very hard to read on the dark Breeze theme.
Kubuntu 18.10 (Kernel: 4.18.0-17-...
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Emacs opened in terminal on an Ubuntu server does not show colors
I am connecting to an Ubuntu server from the terminal via ssh -Y .... When I open Emacs via emacs in a separate window, I see the color theme that I chose in my ~/.emacs setup file (which is why I ...
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To what color does "fg = 248" correspond in Ranger's color schemes?
I'm trying out Ranger file manager written in Python because it has very nice file and image preview features.
While four color schemes are provided by default, others can be added by the user to ~/....
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How do I solve the problem of inverted colors in OBS studio?
I tried to make a recording for gameplay of youtube and twitch but via obs but I found something very inconvenient.
The colors are all inverted ... (or fading, I have no idea)
I would like a help from ...
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using xcalib -i -a to invert colors in just *one* monitor
For years, using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,
xcalib -i -a
would invert the colors of just one monitor on my dual monitor Xorg setup. For that reason, I used both xcalib as well as xrandr-invert-colors, which ...
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Change Lubuntu QTerminal text color?
I want to change my terminal text color, it's gray right now and I want to set it as white, if possible white bold.
I already try to find how to do that with this question, where I tried to edit the ....
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How do I output Full Range RGB in Ubuntu 18.04.1?
I have followed this tutorial. However, I keep getting an error while booting into the system
[drm:drm_load_edid_firmware [drm]] *ERROR* Requesting EDID firmware "edid/edid1.bin" failed (err=-2)
I ...
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Why won't scikit-image work for Python3?
So I'm trying to use scikit-image for several functions on images. One such function is converting an image from rgb to hsv where I took my image (img) and said
from skimage.color import rgb2hsv
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Ubuntu changing background color in text mode boot
I have changed the setting in my ubuntu desktop 16.04 to boot only on command line mode. Upon reboot, the interface that opened had black background, text in white, directories in blue and so on and ...
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gnome terminal: change background color through bashrc
I want to change the color of the terminal display when entering a SSH session. In the .bashrc I have a snip that changes the prompt when logging in via SSH, but I need to change the whole background ...
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Highlight text color problem in MySQL Workbench 8.0.13 in Ubuntu 18.04
I started using Workbench to connect with DDBB and making some queries but when I select some text to only execute that part, the text and background color are the same.
I read something about ...
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Is it possible to apply colors to text in mousepad text editor?
My OS is Xubuntu 16.04.5 and I would like to apply colors to text in mousepad text editor, is it possible? Do I need to download some plugin to that? It would be like a command > format font : type, ...
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Color shemes look different across Terminal, Vim and nano
I am trying to change color sheme of my terminal. I've found beautiful at terminal.sexy. Here it is:
Color codes of this sheme:
! special
*.foreground: #c5c8c6
*.background: #1d1f21
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Lubuntu 18.10: how can I use the color schemes found in /usr/share/color-schemes?
Lubuntu 18.10 uses LXQt as its desktop environment. There are some common features shared between KDE Plasma and LXQt.
One such feature is the presence of /usr/share/color-schemes.
In Lubuntu 18.10, ...
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xcalib error -> unsupported ramp size -> Missing letters in menus and folder names
When issuing xcalib commands I was getting the error Error - unsupported ramp size 0. I was able to fix this by creating the following file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf and placing this text ...
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How do I vary the amount of red or blue light with xcalib
xcalib -color <gamma> <brightness-percent> <contrast-percent>
Is there a tutorial or anything describing how to get varying amounts of red screen by using xcalib? I only found one ...
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How to change App Drawer background to be less transparent
How can I change the Ubuntu app drawer background color? or how can I decrease the blur effect, I don't want to see my wallpaper when I'm on the app drawer page.
Too transparent.
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How can I change the 15 predefined background colors on Ubuntu 18.04? [duplicate]
In Ubuntu 18.04 via Settings > Background > Colors I can choose one of the 15 predefined solid background colors. Can I select these 15 colors myself?
The suggested solutions show that my question ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 inverted colors in PDF print after reinstalling libgs9-common package
After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04, CUPS would no longer print PDFs. I checked /var/log/cups/error.log and discovered these error messages:
/base/gsicc_manage.c:1244: gsicc_open_search(): Could not find ...
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Network Printer HP Officejet Pro 8610 no color model setting
I have an HP Officejet Pro 8610 connected to my Network and it shows up in Ubuntu printers and I can print but the problem is, that it only prints in RGB mode and I am not able to change the color ...
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Weird browser colors in Ubuntu 18.04
I have been running 18.04 for about 3 months and I started to see weird colors in the browser. Note the green/yellow/blue edge on the react symbols here
Can anyone point out a reason for why this is ...
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colors are washed out
I've installed Ubuntu 18.04 on a new desktop with a new screen and the colors seemed bleached (or washed out). This is more obvious with shades of gray that turn into white (e.g., read emails in gmail)...
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Ubuntu 16.04 and Chrome address bar highlight color
The autocomplete suggestions of Google's Chrome address bar has very low contrast. I hardly notice it like the screenshot:
Is there any way that allows me to set the highlight background color to ...
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