Windows Custom Themes

[Salvador Baltimore]

Igo to o365 admin > settings > organisational profile > custom themes. But today it's greyed out and I can't make or save any changes. Tried another tenant and same thing happens. I have global admin rights and have always been able to do this. Does anyone know if anything has changed or if there is a global setting that might be affecting this?

@VasilMichev Custom themes seems to be glitchy in different browsers. Spoke with Support last week and we found it worked only by reverting to classic mode in the new edge but not chrome and FF. Tried again with another today and it's not working again - still same issue, even with edge. I was able to import a theme via powershell and override theming from there. But something is definitely not right with custom theming from within o365 admin for me.

I am in the process of building a custom Windows 10 media PC for church. I would like the users to have a color scheme and background that corresponds to the liturgical color for that service (so if the altar is draped in purple, the computer theme is also purple). One computer will calculate the appropriate color based upon the liturgical calendar and any church events (for example: a baptism, wedding, or funeral service) and act as the "server" for this information to all of the rest of the systems. My plan is to save themes for each color while configuring the system. I am having difficulty finding an automated way on login and periodically throughout the day to change the entire theme (not just the background), and specifically one that would not require administrative privileges. Since many people without significant computer knowledge will be using this PC, and to follow best practices, the main account must be user-level privileges only with a few select administrators from the congregation staff/ volunteers.

Windows Color Scheme (Theme) Program - the recommended software is for much more UI customization (per-application skins, custom fonts, etc.), which is way more than what I want and would likely confuse people. Also, the need is for programmatic control of the theme and this requires user action.

You could use .theme files for this, since they are installed by simply executingthem and can change colors and many other things.And especially, they can be installed by any user without requiring administratorprivileges.

For example, you could prepare your themes on your computer.Any changes you make are recorded in the fileC:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\Custom.theme,or you could save the theme under some name.

You could copy the themes to some network share on your computer or any centralserver. You would install the themes via tasks defined via the Task Scheduler,which will just install the theme of the day (or hour) as you programmed.

This is not in a theme but is found in the registry at keyHKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize,value named AppsUseLightTheme (DWORD), where0 is for Dark theme and 1 for Light theme.I don't know if this change requires restarting Explorer or logout/in.

Both Windows 10 and 11 allow users to create their own customized themes, where they can customize everything from sound to colors, background, and even the mouse cursor. In this guide, we will look at how to get creative with themes in Windows to jazz up the overall look of your system!

If you choose the Custom option, then you can further pick what you want your default Windows and app mode to be (light or dark). You can also scroll down the same window to pick an accent color of your choice.

Simply choose Sounds to open the Sound dialog and pick your preferred sound scheme. In the same dialog, you should see a Program Events section. Click on an event to test or change its default sound.

Click on the Mouse cursor option and in the following dialog, you can customize the buttons, pointers, wheel, hardware, and touchpad settings. The default mouse cursor settings are quite satisfactory, so we recommend you only change the ones you are sure about.

Till this point, you have made all the important changes needed to customize the theme. If you are satisfied with the results, click on the Save theme button in the Themes section of Personalization Settings. Enter a name for your theme, and you are good to go.

To change fonts, you can either use the ones already available in the Fonts' section of Personalization Settings or download new fonts. If you are considering customizing the taskbar, you can center the taskbar icons or change the taskbar icons for programs.

Head over to Windows Settings > Personalization > Themes to view the installed themes and pick the one you want to customize. If you would like to start from scratch, then you can choose the Background option in the same window. Choose the type of background you want.

The Microsoft Store offers a bunch of both free and paid themes that you can install and apply via Windows Settings on Windows 10 and 11. The method of downloading themes from the Microsoft Store on both the operating system versions is almost the same. We will use Windows 10 to demonstrate the steps in this method.

While the default Windows theme is quite satisfactory, you do not have to settle for it if you don't want to. Fortunately, Windows lets you customize almost all aspects of themes, so if you haven't done it yet, now might be the best time to give your desktop a personal touch.

You can also look for Windows themes from third-party programs online if you don't want to spend the time creating your own theme, and you aren't satisfied with what is available in the Microsoft Store.

This tutorial provides some resources and direction to help you customize your command prompt for PowerShell or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using Oh My Posh. Oh My Posh provides theme capabilities for a fully customized command prompt experience providing Git status color-coding and prompts.

To set a Nerd Font for use with Oh My Posh and Terminal Icons, open the Windows Terminal settings UI by selecting Settings (Ctrl+,) from your Windows Terminal dropdown menu. Select the profile where you wish to apply the font, PowerShell for example, and then the Appearance tab. In the Font face drop-down menu, select CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font or whichever Nerd font you would like to use with your customized prompt.

If you want to use a terminal font that does not support glyph icons, such as Cascadia Code PL, you may consider using an Oh My Posh theme that contains the minimal function, indicating that additional icons aren't required.

You will need to agree to the source terms and may run into the instance that more than one package is available. In this case, select package ID that you wish to use and re-enter the command: winget install .

If you want to install the newest version of Oh My Posh in PowerShell, you may want to first remove the OMP module's cached files and uninstall the old module. There are instructions on how to do this in the Oh My Posh docs.If you are more familiar with the Scoop installer or a manual installation method that allows automation, these can also be used for installing on Windows, just follow the instructions in the Oh My Posh docs.

If you receive a script error when trying to open a new PowerShell instance, your Execution Policy for PowerShell may be restricted. To set your PowerShell Execution Policy to unrestricted, you will need to launch PowerShell as an administrator and then use the following command:

See the Oh My Posh FAQs for answers to common questions or issues. To learn more about the configuration and general settings, such as how to restore the current working directory, see the Oh My Posh docs.

Currently the recommended path for customizing WSL prompts with Oh My Posh uses the Homebrew package manager for installation. (Homebrew works with WSL now!) When installing Homebrew for Linux, be sure to follow Next steps instructions to add Homebrew to your PATH and to your bash shell profile script.

The Oh My Posh themes will be found in the oh-my-posh directory as JSON files. You can find it by entering cd $(brew --prefix oh-my-posh), then just cd themes and ls for the list. For Ubuntu-20.04 running via WSL, the path is likely to be something like: \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu-20.04\home\linuxbrew\.linuxbrew\Cellar\oh-my-posh\6.34.1\themes. You can also view what the themes look like in the Oh My Posh docs: Themes.

Terminal-Icons is a PowerShell module that adds file and folder icons that may be missing when displaying files or folders in Windows Terminal, looking up their appropriate icon based on name or extension. It attempts to use icons for well-known files/folders, but falls back to a generic file or folder icon if one is not found.

As Konstantin Komissarchik said, I had to modify my OS colors. This is possible by adding a custom Visual Style to the Windows. With the aid of a Custom Theme and a Custom Visual Style for Windows 7 (Which I have changed a little bit), my Eclipse looks like the picture below:

The latest versions of Eclipse now come with a dark theme. Just go to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Appearance -> Theme and select "Dark" or another appropriate version based on your operating system.

A new dark window theme has been introduced. This popular community theme demonstrates the power of the underlying Eclipse 4 styling engine.

You can enable it from the General > Appearance preference page.

Plug-ins can contribute extensions to this theme to style their own specific views and editors to match the window theme.

The first is to change the appearance of what is inside the editor windows.

That can be done with the Eclipse Colour Theme plugin ( ). My favourite editor theme is Vibrant Ink with the Monaco font. They explain how to install their themes very well ( =how-to-use), although you get a fine set of dark themes with the default plugin install and may not need to come back to their website for any more. Get the plugin here.

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