I am having trouble using the terminal in GEdit since the text-color is white on gray background. I can not find an option to change anything for that terminal anywhere. How can I change it? N.B. The python terminal is fine.
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Ubuntu – How to change the color of the text in a terminal embedded in GEdit
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Make sure you have the following packages installed:
Open up
gconf-editorand navigate to apps ➜ gnome-terminal and select a profile:
Now open up
dconf-editorand navigate to org ➜ gnome ➜ gedit ➜ plugins ➜ terminal and uncheck the use-theme-colors key:
From gconf-editor, copy the values of the
- background-color
- foreground-color
- palette
over to the corresponding keys in dconf-editor. The embedded terminal should now match a regular gnome-terminal.
Find the solution myself:
It was a style (theme) problem. Checked again using the default theme and this behave as expected. So I inspected carefully the other themes and found that not all those themes had this problem.
The solution was to edit the theme's code (twilight.xml) to insert the following lines:
<style name="selection" background="orange" />
<style name="selection-unfocused" foreground="white" background="gray" />
By the way, the location of the themes in gEdit 3 differ from gEdit 2. Here it is:
~/.local/share/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/
You can create the directory yourself if it doesn't exist. Further info on style paths here: http://live.gnome.org/GtkSourceView/StyleSchemes
Best Answer
I figured it out myself. Questions seems to be so unpopular that I received the "Tumbleweed bagde". Awesome!
org - gnome - gedit - plugins - terminaluse-theme-colorsbox. (Thanks to comment by Hibou57)Since a picture says more than a thousand words: