Windows 10 Dark Theme Customizations

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I'm having trouble to get my custom dark theme to work accross Windows taskbar, start menu, Skype, and other programs like Open Office. I had a couple questions:

1) Can you disable the Windows Theme from screwing up your spreadsheets etc with converting and even FORCING all of the cell colors to one that's the dark theme background?

2) Is it possible to edit the source code of the dark theme to tweek the colors per section like for example it may look decent but there's no dark gray I desire for the task bar and there's always contrast conflicts such as blank black on the Settings window  if I choose black text but if I choose a lighter text it's terrible readability on the folders text. It's really frustrating.

 

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good god man, have you got a thing for the colour Lilac? :) 

 

reminds me of a standard win 98 colour scheme 

whats wrong with?

 

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what your asking is neigh on impossible, without serious resource hacking and tbh probably of finite usage with CUs etc.

 

One thing i wished would happen with Ms nightmode and dark theme, hit Explorer with it! My only beef with default.

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Yeah their custom dark theme usability is absolutely atrocious! They offer ZERO flexibility and only a hand full of terrible color choices that work together terribly. For example if I choose black background there's several sections in windows/ apps that can't even be read. If I choose blue it's soo bright and ugly. There's no dark gray. If I use the dark gray theme provided by windows I'm stuck with the blaring white background in notepad, calculator, folders, and skype. And of course Skype keeps ignoring the millions of users annoyed at this fact. Being a Binary Options trader that prefers easy on the eyes dark theme jumping from the black screen MT4 to bright white skype is just aweful! Blasted windows!!! Grrr!!

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2 minutes ago, T3X4S said:

There are 3rd party options to get around this.  Not 100%, but definitely looks better than ... uhhh.. whatever that is in the OP.

Yeah I'm thinking to just switch to Linux Mint. But not sure about how the MT4 software will work in there. Any feedback on that one?

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1 hour ago, johnwboyd said:

Yeah I'm thinking to just switch to Linux Mint. But not sure about how the MT4 software will work in there. Any feedback on that one?

By MT4, if you're referring to MetaTrader - I did find this: MetaTrader 4 on Linux

If that isnt what you meant, then I apologize.  I am only a basic linux user, so I would not be a very good source, but there are plenty of nix gurus in here.

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I just zoomed into your post, and saw that you were referring to MetaTrader - I am sorry, but I am unfamiliar with that software, and how it runs on linux.  I am sure you know much more than I do about it.



 

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On 4/26/2017 at 10:33 AM, Mando said:

good god man, have you got a thing for the colour Lilac? :) 

 

reminds me of a standard win 98 colour scheme 

whats wrong with?

 

desktop.thumb.jpg.0c7229de5cfa0ea281c84bca433d0dac.jpg

 

what your asking is neigh on impossible, without serious resource hacking and tbh probably of finite usage with CUs etc.

 

One thing i wished would happen with Ms nightmode and dark theme, hit Explorer with it! My only beef with default.

Can I get a link to this wallpaper?

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