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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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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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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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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 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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Skype, when minimized to tray, does not use system default theme

I use MX-Linux 21-KDE as my daily driver. In my system, Skype starts automatically and is always minimized to the system tray. However, when I set the settings of the panel to hide automatically, I ...
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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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Trying to adapt transmission iOS theme to debian based distro

Currently I'm using Linux Mint cinnamon 21.1 and I'm experiencing an old issue: when I use Mint-Y or Mint-X dark theme, my transmission-gtk shows dark icons, like image below: But my principal ...
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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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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 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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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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An app messed up my GNOME themes, how do I reset all of them?

I unintentionally opened the Discover KDE app. As soon as I opened it, all of my gnome programs' themes changed. I installed gnome-tweak-tool to try to change the themes back. For some reason Discover ...
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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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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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How can I preserve my terminal colors when connected to a server via ssh? (Light theme)

I use built-in terminal app with default settings on my MacBook with the latest Ventura MacOS. My system theme is set to Auto. It means during daytime all my apps use Light theme. This also includes ...
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How can I get my SVG icon to automatically change its colour depending on the background colour?

I am trying to add some icons into ~/.local/share/icons/ so that I can use them with notify-send. I can do that just fine, but the icon colour is not adapting to the background, unlike the Adwaita ...
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Dark background on Linux Fedora Cinnamon

I made some changes to the system to be able to view applications with a black background; i installed qt5ct and did some experiments; however, I was unable to configure some applications of my Linux ...
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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 ...
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how to change scrollbar slider color in a theme

Running Debian 11 and xfce, I'm trying to figure out how to change the default scrollbar slider colors, the dull grey just doesn't do it for me. Edit: Ok, this works: scrollbar { -XfceTasklist-min-...
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Floating top bar gnome

I would like to make the top bar in gnome floating. I found some tutorials suggesting editing the gnome-shell.css of the current theme. I edited the file and added the below to the /* Top Bar */ ...
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How to get default xfce4 color themes

I have switched from Debian with systemd to Devuan without systemd and my quality of life has much improved. Both operating systems have xfce4 as desktop environment. But I have noticed that all the ...
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How to change title bar color of emacs in gnome desktop environment

I'm using Gentoo with gnome-42.3. I've set the theme to Adwaita-dark. All the windows turned dark except the emacs. Is there a way to set title-bar-color for a specific application?
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nano change line numbers color

How can I change the actual editor theme in .nanorc, I am not speaking about the syntax highlighting but editor elements such as titlebar or line numbers color/background color? For instance, I would ...
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gsettings/dconf/gnome tweak settings are not persistent

I am trying to change the 'Legacy Applications' setting in the gnome-tweaks but when I restart the shell (Alt+F2+r) it resets back to default. I tried changing it via dconf and gsettings too but didn'...
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How can I make all apps use the same theme in Gnome 42 on Fedora?

After a fresh installation, not all preinstalled apps seem to be using the same theme. And changing the theme seems to only change it for some. How the window buttons of the file manager look: How ...
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How to install KDE / Qt / Plasma themes without the full Plasma package?

How do I install KDE / Qt / Plasma themes without installing the full (rather big) Plasma package? Or specifically in my case: How do I install a Dark theme for Kate editor?
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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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Change terminal color theme to black ink on white paper in Q4OS

I am using the Q4OS linux. The terminal has a dark theme with black background and white ink. I would like to have black ink on white background in the terminal. I have found a partial solution by ...
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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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How to change the mouse cursor in Bodhi Linux

In Bodhi Linux, there is a poor choice of mouse cursor - only from the MOKSHA desktop theme, is it possible to change the theme of the mouse cursor?
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Won't Boot After Removing Sound-theme-freedesktop freedesktop.org from Linux mint 20.3

I removed sound-theme-freedesktop from linux mint 20.3 software manager because I thought it was unnecessary sounds that I don't need or use. After doing so, I rebooted and the system just hangs on ...
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Prevent LibreOffice from using system theme

I recently started using Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon. I understand that LibreOffice automatically uses the system colour theme---my preferred system theme is dark so LibreOffice uses it as well. However, ...
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How to change Qt/Gtk theme using CLI

I can change the theme using lxappearance and everything works. This includes pcmanfm, gnome-disks, firefox, and qalculate-qt themes being changed. Using gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface ...
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How do I install Manajro KDE Theme, Manjaro GNOME Theme and Manjaro's icon pack in Arch Linux KDE?

How do I install Manajro KDE Theme, Manjaro GNOME Theme and Manjaro's icon pack in Arch Linux KDE? Because I really like their themes and icons and I dont want to distrohop just for that! Please help.
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How do I get zsh-navigation-tools to show in the default shell colors instead of using its own theme?

I have a terminal with a white background: I enabled the zsh-navigation-tools plugin in Oh My Zsh. In n-list.conf I've set the color scheme to black on white: # Main color pair (foreground/background)...
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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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Select GTK theme in Wine-staging under Plasma 5

I am using Plasma 5 with the dark default theme and would like to have dark-themed apps under Wine as close as possible to the main one. I had some success by using msstyles with winecfg, but I have ...
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Cedar Logic Simulator is unusable with WINE

So, I'm trying to use the Cedar Logic Simulator on linux with WINE. (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cedarlogic/) I am on Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS x86_64. However, with the standard settings of wine it ...
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How to dynamically switch terminal colors for all open terminals?

I use gnome-terminal on Ubuntu / Fedora. For color schemes I use base16-shell, along with its corresponding settings for my editor vi. I have configured my .bashrc to set the base16 theme on start up. ...
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Environment variable to override GTK icon theme

There is an environment variable available for overwriting current system GTK theme, GTK_THEME. Is there anything available for icon theme as well as for overwriting current icon theme?
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how to install themes/icons themes with lxappearance

In lxappearance there is a git "+ install" button but it only accepts .tar.gz files. When downloading a theme/icon theme, the file is a .tar.xz, and when I try to turn the .tar.xz into a ....
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Global dark mode switch in arch [duplicate]

I am looking for a way to have a shortcut to toggle from light/dark mode on my Arch (Artix) system ,with just a window manager. The only thing that comes to mind is to grep the configs of every ...
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Default desktop theme still boots, after being deleted

Ubuntu 20.04 still boots into the default desktop theme, on Budgie and Gnome. This is after I deleted/moved all the desktop environment themes: sudo mv /usr/share/themes /usr/share/themes_backup rm -...
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Ugly shadow in gnome top bar caused by a theme. How do I hide that?

Hello, I'm using the 'Canta' theme with my gnome DE. I very like the theme, but it has one problem. This ugly shadow is applied on buttons in the top bar, when focused: (The blue thing in the picture)...
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How do I increase the font size of the message list in Geary?

I just installed Geary and it doesn't seem possible to change the font size of the message list and the text on my laptop screen is too small. Is there a way to modify this without affecting the rest ...
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Bootsplash setup with LUKS password prompt

I'm running manjaro with full disk encryption. I want to have "themed" boot experience and so I installed bootsplash. Unfortunately it doesn't theme the initial disk password prompt. Is it ...
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