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On some operating systems it is possible to customize selection colours and other GUI colours. I have set yellow for mine:

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Is it possible to retrieve this colour in Mathematica, so that it can be used in custom GUI construction?

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  • $\begingroup$ On what operating system(s) do you need to do it? $\endgroup$
    – MarcoB
    Apr 12, 2019 at 18:43
  • $\begingroup$ @MarcoB I somehow managed to phrase the answer while trying to respond to your comment ... posting now. $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Apr 12, 2019 at 18:47
  • $\begingroup$ Hehe, Socratic method for the win :-) (+1) $\endgroup$
    – MarcoB
    Apr 12, 2019 at 18:49
  • $\begingroup$ @MarcoB To be accurate, it seems it might be possible in 12.0 using CurrentValue["SystemColors"]. The documentation is already online, but this can't be expected to work reliably in the cloud (which is the public way to run 12.0 today) $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Apr 12, 2019 at 18:51

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Since version 12.0, this is possible using 

CurrentValue["SystemColors"]

See CurrentValue under Details.

On my system I get

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    $\begingroup$ Is it possible to use this to set these colors? $\endgroup$
    – b3m2a1
    Apr 20, 2019 at 15:38

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