Ubuntu – How to make selected tab in terminal more prominent

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Something about the color scheme changed in 11.04, and now it's very difficult for me to tell which tab is the selected one.

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On my screen, the colors look more similar the further down I slouch in my chair (i.e. angle of view).

If I change the color scheme the problem is solved, but that solution is too extreme for me. Is there a way to just change the color of the selected tab in terminal, or otherwise make it more prominent?

UPDATE: In 12.10 the accepted solution doesn't work. Can anyone fix it?

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For 12.10–15.04 you can create a CSS theme for GTK 3.0 as explained in this comment by Kees (kees-vanveen) on the bug report posted above by Alessio.

Create the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Paste this as the contents using your desired color:

TerminalWindow .notebook tab:active {
    background-color: #def;
}

Close all Terminal windows and relaunch the application to see the change.

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Well, since nobody else wants to answer...

I just stumbled upon the following question and I'm pretty sure the behaviour I experienced was caused by the settings being read from one config system but configuration tools changing the settings in another.

Just to quote:

dconf is a new way for applications to store settings, and it is intended to replace gconf. dconf-editor and gconf-editor are for their respective configuration systems, and they don't talk to each other. At the moment that transition is still a work in progress, so many applications continue to use gconf. In addition, some applications still have settings left over in gconf even though they are using dconf now.

Almost all of the software that is installed by default - everything that comes from GNOME - uses dconf (if anything). Almost everything else that is available uses gconf, though this is of course changing as older software is brought up to date.

If I still had that system I would install gconf-editor and dconf-editor and poked around to see where the settings in question were stored.

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Have you checked the answer for this question? Create or edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css as:

.titlebar {
    background: #3089FF;
    color:white; 
}

.titlebar:backdrop  {
    background: #777777;
    color:white;
}

Note that you can choose different colors to suite your preferences. Then refresh the gnome:

setsid gnome-shell --replace

I just tried it and it worked for me.

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