Hi
When setting up CE (NG), the Previous and Next buttons are indistinguishable for someone with red/green colour weak vision (up to 10% of the male population).
The Kodi button colours are fine and easily distinguished.
How can this be fixed please?
Change the color scheme of the Estuary Skin
Settings > Interface > Skins > Colors
Or use a different skin altogether.
How does one accomplish this having flashed the sd-card i.e. at a file level? Also itâd be much better if the default colours chosen didnât cause an issue for colour-blind folks.
In case it makes a difference Iâm using a Minix Neo U22-XJ on a LG OLED tv but I recall this issue before on an Odroid N2+ and a projector.
Assume youâre color blind but can you read? 
YadaYada gave you steps required to change colors.
If you want default color change go to kodi forum.
I am colorblind and will read the text as a workaround 
Iâll ignore the digs at my disability (I only came here for support after all), but are you saying that the âWelcome to CoreElecâ hostname/wifi network etc. setup screens are under the control of the Kodi app?
As per the prev images, by contrast the Kodi buttons are very clear as to which button is selected.
Yes these are under control of kodi colors picked by kodi devs as default. You are looking at kodi 19 in this video.
These days are gone forever.
How does reading the text show you which button is selected? 
Reading the txt you change colors of your setup as per YadaYada quide
Those are not the default colours in CE since CE 20 or something like that.
@Vasco tx for the reply. The images I posted were the colours present with CoreELEC-Amlogic-ng.arm-21.2-Omega-Generic.img.gz. They do seem to change rather depending on which monitor is used, of course, but I am advised that âPreviousâ is grey and âNextâ is blue. Which is odd since itâs red and/or green which causes me an issue. But using colours of similar intensity is not a good idea when highlighting an item.
Iâll see what the Kodi folks say.
The color scheme is red/gray in CE-NO v22. CE-NG is EOL now.
A red/grey scheme sounds as if it could be problematic.
As for EOL, I just downloaded what https://coreelec.org/ suggested was the latest stable release.
Maybe try it first? If it is problematic, as other suggested itâs better to take it up with Kodi directly, they maintain that skin
CE development focus is now 100% on CE-NO, try the lastest nightly
https://relkai.coreelec.org/?dir=Amlogic-no/ce-22
âStableâ releases are just snapshots in time. CE-NO 22 is over a year in development, and stable.
I would think the CE settings come from the service.coreelec.settings addon not from Team Kodi.
I confirmed after copying service.coreelec.settings to .kodi/addons I could modify the colours. This is
service-CoreELEC-Settings-mainWindow.xml with white to yellow and red to blue with a brown theme FWIW
Tx for the info. Pardon my ignorance, but is that something that I can modify on the sd-card directly after flashing? I can only see these files
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 26/05/2025 03:10 device_trees
-a---- 26/05/2025 03:10 5016 config.ini
-a---- 26/05/2025 03:10 2226 cfgload
-a---- 26/05/2025 03:10 1218 aml_autoscript
-a---- 26/05/2025 03:10 27742208 kernel.img
-a---- 26/05/2025 03:10 308817920 SYSTEM
-a---- 26/05/2025 03:10 48 kernel.img.md5
-a---- 26/05/2025 03:10 48 SYSTEM.md5
-a---- 26/05/2025 03:10 60837 dtb.imgYes from ssh you can run
cp -r /usr/share/kodi/addons/service.coreelec.settings /storage/.kodi/addons
and then (if you donât use Estuary edit Default)
/storage/.kodi/addons/service.coreelec.settings/resources/skins/skin.estuary/xml/
you can edit these files
service-CoreELEC-Settings-getPasskey.xml
service-CoreELEC-Settings-mainWindow.xml
service-CoreELEC-Settings-wizard.xml
they are pretty much all textcolor white or red. Sorry not sure which give you the most difficulty.
Restart Kodi to see any changes.
Back them up too they will change especially on NO
Martin
I managed to get a 2024 nightly of NO to boot (the current nightly wonât boot) and here are some example CE setup screens for comparison:
Even I can see that the âhighlightâ colour is red when pasted here, although on the TV it is not very distinguisable at all. For some reason the mobileâs camera accentuates the solidity of the colour. (All TV & mobile images settings are at the defaults) It seems that the main issue is of the (lack of) brightness of the colour used for highlighting.
I raised the issue on the Kodi forum and the response was that it was a CE issue.
Iâll do some more digging âŚ
Tx Martin but how do I access these files before CE has been setup i.e. no network etc.?
In the root folder, âcfgloadâ looks like it sets up various low level h/w-related env variables but I canât spot anything that looks like skin selection.
I asked ChatGPT [ducks] how to modify the skin for the first CE setup screen (Hostname) and it said:
The initial setup wizard, including the hostname configuration screen, is not skinnable through standard Kodi skin settings.
Possible (Advanced) Options
If you are determined to change the appearance of the hostname setup screen, youâd need to:
1. Modify the CoreELEC source or system scripts
Mount the CoreELEC system image (or edit it directly via SSH).*
Look for setup scripts in:*
/storage/.config/*
/usr/share/*
/etc/profile.d/*
For graphical parts, check /usr/share/ or custom splash scripts.*
The wizard might be launched by a script like /usr/bin/oe_setup or something similar.*
2. Edit or Replace the Setup Wizard
If itâs using PyQt, pygame, or a text GUI, you might be able to customize colors, fonts, or layout if you can locate and understand the script.*
CoreELEC is read-only in many parts, so youâd have to remount or create an overlay FS to test changes.*
So this looks to be way past my experience.
Also does anyone know how to reset the CE config i.e. so that it goes through the CE setup screens, without flashing the sd-card from scratch?
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