Questions tagged [theme]
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How can I change the output colors of `git branch -vv`
I see that it takes a --format argument:
--format <format>
A string that interpolates %(fieldname) from a branch ref being shown and the object it points at. The format is the ...
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ZSH (O-M-Z + powerlevel9k) + glyphs + console only (Ubuntu server edition): How to get all 3 working?
So I have installed ZSH + oh-my-zsh + powerlevel9k on my Ubuntu server edition.
While it's working including the colors (I used darkorange background to display current user), I cannot get the glyphs ...
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How to add QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct environment variable in Arch Linux?
I am using a standalone tiling window manager QTile. In QTile I want to organize my GTK and QT Themes. For GTK theme I used a program named "lzappearance" and it works perfectly fine. But, ...
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Customize wingpanel under Elementary OS
Recently I have installed Elementary OS luna, which is based on Ubuntu. I want to customize the wingpanel to display the menu toolbar of the selected application.
This is my wingpanel:
But I need ...
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How Can I Change The Backgound Color in Lynx From `lynx.cfg`?
I am using this script, from another stack extange post. It allows me to force Lynx to use the proper terminal colors. The issue is that the backgound color is incorrect, and it is reading the 7th ...
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How to use my existing custom GTK theme (Arc) with gtk-window-decorator when using Compiz?
I'm currently using Compiz 0.8 to get blur effects and transparency, in place of xfwm4. I had been using Emerald to provide window borders, but I was unhappy with the selection available there. I ...
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How can I change the login page background to dark?
So I'm using Parrot Security OS (Mate based UI), and I accidentally change the theme, but while I switch it back, the login page's background (the small box where you chose user and enter password) ...
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Need write permissions to install themes on Linux Mint 17 "Rebecca" Mate
Just installed Linux Mint 17 "Rebecca" Mate. I'm trying to install a new theme and am directed to
http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=167
I've downloaded a couple and their instructions ...
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Setting up the dark Greybird theme on Xubuntu 18.04
I have read that Xubuntu 18.04 has a dark theme, but I could not find it anywhere. I have manually upgraded to the newest version from 16.04. Perhaps this is the reason why I could not find it, or do ...
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Old version of Adwaita-dark
Is it possible to get the old (less flat) version of the Adwaita-dark theme for use in Ubuntu 22.04 + Cinnamon?
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How to change title bar transparency in KDE Plasma 5?
Open SUSE Tumbleweed, very latest KDE
I played around with themes and things and can not find the settings anymore. Just read something (outdated I think) about manually editing files that define the ...
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`update-grub` command fails to set theme changes made in /etc/default/grub; may be particular to Kali
Tealdeer at the bottom.
Hoo boy have I strugglebussed with this one. Pertinent details to follow, but first a quick overview of what's going on. No matter where I look, I cannot seem to find the file ...
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How can I reset the Hot Corners Icon and and make the Top Bar opaque?
Broke some theming for Fedora Workstation 39. I don't like that Apple icon in the top left and the fact that the Top Bar is transparent? How can I change it back?
I tried:
Resetting Tweaks
dconf reset ...
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How to get a 'compact' look in GTK?
I am not a fan of the newer “touch screen” looks that GTK has these days. I appreciate what the GTK devs are doing (and to be honest, they look great!) But, I am not on a tablet, I am on a laptop and ...
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KDE Plasma 5.25, X11, Breeze (dark): Enable transparency and blur
I recently switched to Fedora KDE 36, with Plasma 5.25.2. Using X11, because I'm experiencing bad visual glitches with Wayland (NVIDIA GPU).
Now I would like to enable some form of transparency+blur ...
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zsh, oh-my-zsh, change current directory color
I've installed oh-my-zsh withe the "pure" theme (https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure) and the current directory is now being shown at the prompt. The problem is that it's shown in a dark blue color ...
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KDE Plasma insists on staying in dark theme with dark letters
My KDE Plasma insists on staying in a dark theme with dark letters. I've tried changing the theme, but it persists like this. I've already tried logging in with Gnome and switching between the light/...
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Enable dark-mode in GTK2
So I am using Arc as my GTK theme, and applied it like this
[Settings]
gtk-icon-theme-main=Arc
gtk-theme-name=Arc
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
To enable ...
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How to set dark theme for KDE Apps on Xubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with XFCE4 dark theme, but KDE apps (for example: ktorrent) are using default bright theme.
How to set those apps globally to use dark theme?
(previously I never had this ...
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Where is the system-wide dark mode setting in Linux?
I'm using the Raspberry Pi version of Debian, which has both GTK and KDE programs, as well as bygone era programs like xpdf that still work just fine.
If I wanted to tell apps that I prefer Dark Mode, ...
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Missing drag-and-drop icons in some themes
I installed a theme (Materia-Manjaro-Dark-gtk) on RPi OS 6.1.0. The theme works fine with my app as long as I define the shell variable GTK_THEME, but I got the messages "dnd-copy/dnd-none not ...
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How can my flatpaks inherit gnome themes?
I am having problems with all the Flatpak packages that I install: they don't inherit the themes of cursor and window and use a theme of the windows similar to the predefined one of gnome, and the ...
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How to configure appearance/theme of KDE Dolphin app
I am using a Raspberry Pi astronomy package that runs under Arch-Linux and KDE. Amateur astronomers often prefer keeping their computer screens very dark to avoid light pollution. But my use of this ...
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How to fix themes in ArchLinux
I am using a Raspberry Pi astronomy package that runs under Arch-Linux and KDE. Amateur astronomers often prefer keeping their computer screens very dark to avoid light pollution. But my use of this ...
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Command for detecting whether the system is using a dark or light desktop theme?
There's a way in browsers to query if the user prefers a dark or light theme so that a website developer could adapt the website's colours according to user preference.
Is there also a way to detect ...
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Integrate java app installed through flathub to GTK
I have installed sweethome3d via flathub(https://flathub.org/apps/com.sweethome3d.Sweethome3d). Expectedly, the look is not integrated with Adwaita or whatever GTK theme and icons I am using.
Is there ...
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Using a dark theme in KDE with Gnome applications (e.g., Firefox)
I prefer the breeze-dark KDE theme. Unfortunately, some gnome apps (such as Firefox) are problematic. In particular, in text input fields in Firefox, one ends up with white text on a white background ...
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Where can I find the below Linux terminal theme?
I have seen the below terminal theme a few times like this video. I think it is using the kitty terminal.
I have found some config files here which might be relevant but note sure if this will work/...
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Gnome-tweak-tool kali linux 2019 "shell not installed or running"
So I was trying to switch up the theme for my new kali linux 2019.4 virtual machine. I installed gnome-tweak-tool package for the task. However, when I run it by typing gnome-tweaks in the command ...
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How does a terminal produce accurate colors?
Background
I am using terminals in various settings. Often the color output of programs is not correctly rendered on the screen.
The internet is full of recipes for fixing the colors for specific ...
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Change color of top and bottom bars of GNOME 3
I run GNOME 3.28.3 on CentOS 7. Even after setting Adwaita-dark (the dark version of the default GNOME theme) as the application theme, the top and bottom status bars are still light gray. Is there a ...
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Wrong font colour in GNOME's Application menu while in dark mode
I installed GNOME Tweaks through the Pop Shop to play around with the customizability.
Under Appearance>Themes>Applications I tried switching it to some of the other preinstalled themes. But ...
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Ricing Xclock Colors
I have edited the ~/.Xresources file for the forground and backgorund of Xclock:
xclock*foreground: #ebdbb2
xclock*background: #282828
Only the background shows up. The forground remains the default ...
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Change GTK theme from command line
I was able to change my GTK theme with lxappearance but would prefer to know the command (or multiple commands, if GTK2 and GTK3 themes need to be set separately).
At the moment, I'm on an Ubuntu ...
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Garuda Linux application style not changing in some apps when global theme changed
I tried to change the default Garuda theme to other themes such as Orchis, WhiteSur, Material Dark KDE, etc. and almost everything was working fine, however, I noticed that some applications like ...
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Change border color around window (edit GTK theme)
I am using a fairly recent version of Cinnamon (5.4.12), with desktop theme Adwaita-dark (and Adwaita sometimes).
When I start a gnome-terminal window, it has a very thin (1px?) white border all ...
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Change Color of Main Menu Custom Theme
I am trying to edit the text color for a selected application in the applications' menu. This "applications' menu" is opened upon pressing the Super Key. I am running pop os 22.04.
As you ...
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Size of icons in desktop environment
I'd like to replace the icons for some of the applications on GNOME desktop. I looked into the default Adwaita icon directory and noticed that it has directories for icons of different sizes (e.g., ...
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"Desktop Settings" isn't available in Arch-Linux Xfce4's Settings Manager. How can I add/install it?
Images:
Settings Manager in Linux Mint
Settings Manager in Arch Linux
The above images are captured on my system running Linux Mint and Arch Linux respectively.
The main reason I want to do this ...
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Qt app doesn't apply Kvantum themes correctly on Fedora
So I've been using apps that use the Qt engine like: Prism Launcher or PeaZip with the Kvantum engine to theme those app. And in most of the apps I have, while some part of it are themed correctly, ...
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How to change the theme of all apps?
When I installed Debian I installed alternative desktop environments such as KDE aside GNOME. When I ran a KDE program instead of its GNOME counterpart by mistake, the theme of all applications ...
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Terminal Profiles not being loaded
Eve though in dconf the profiles i installed are shown
> dconf list /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/
:3fab5042-3b59-44c2-b86e-df287109b3d7/
:93be6823-4719-4dea-be06-ebf0ae9091d8/
:Aci/
:Wild-...
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What does !something mean in my terminal/shell before the directory? (Using MacOS)
What does the !w mean which is present before the directory path?
Are there other such symbol
here is my output to $PS1 - https://pastebin.mozilla.org/5GuTTbqU:
${$((_p9k_on_expand()))+}%{${...
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What terminal foreground and background colors are good to reduce eye strain?
I'm wondering what settings people recommend for a terminal (xterm, iTerm2 etc) for minimizing eye strain.
I've so far used black foreground text on dull background color (like #C8AB95) - and that's ...
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Where may I find a reference scheme for GNOME 3 theming (e.g. Adwaita)?
I upgraded to Fedora 21, which spotlights GNOME 3.14 (plus the relevant GTK+ material). Unfortunately it seems that this particular update mangles a lot of my older themes, written for now-aging ...
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Why does my tmux theme not match the one I'm trying to install?
I am trying to install this theme for tmux.
After all the steps specified in the instructions, I get this.
The color of the invitation is completely different, as well as all the "strokes" ...
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Themes app not showing preview for installed GTK themes (Window borders and Controls) in Cinnamon
I have installed Cinnamon in Ubuntu using a ppa. The problem I have is that newly installed GTK themes won't show previews in Themes application. Here are the screenshots. .As you can see the Window ...
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How to apply grub theme to a live usb?
This is my setup,
I Have installed grub on the usb using grub-install command in the /boot directory.
I copied 3 iso's on the usb
Manually created a grub.cfg file to boot into the iso's.
So I want ...
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Change icon and cursor theme in dwm
I just installed my own dwm
I patched in systray and I would like to change the icon theme it uses away from adiwaita to something else (Arch ,Faba, Moka or breeze).
I tried changing to gnome, and ...
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Gnome 43. missing Minimize and full screen icons not working
I have a problem since i upgraded my gnome to 42. i thought it will get fixed on 43 but it still have the problem
the problem is: all Gnome application have no minimize and full-screen button. but ...