Ubuntu – How to enable 24bit true color support in Gnome terminal

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According to this page, Gnome Terminal supports 24bit true color. This is consistent with Wikipedia.

When I run color-spaces.pl in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with Gnome Terminal 3.6.2, the result is the following:

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While there is no reference image, I imagine that those green strangely-shaped objects at the bottom indicate that the terminal is unable to print 24bit colors correctly.

How to enable 24bit support?

Best Answer

24bit support is enabled by default but gnome-terminal has to be in version linked against libvte >= 0.36 (as stated on the page you mentioned). Which unfortunetly is not the case in the latest ubuntu 14.04 (at the time of writing).

As a workaround you may try:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging

Last step removes their ppa - it's optional but be carefull, there is whole gnome3 at that ppa.

Oh and the screen:

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