Ubuntu – Unity terminal in Ubuntu GNOME 16.04

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I am using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 and my terminal looks like this.

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Is there a way to get that purple background terminal like this?

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Best Answer

Method 1: Change your GTK+ theme

Follow the steps below.

  1. Install (GNOME) Tweak Tool and Ambience theme (if not installed already) by running

    sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool light-themes

  2. Open Tweak Tool and go to Appearance. Select "Ambiance" for application theme (or GTK+ theme).
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  3. Launch Terminal and go to Edit > Profile Preferences > Colours (tab) (or something similar) and check the "Use colours from system theme" option.

Note: Ambiance is a global GTK+ theme, so it would make (almost) all the applications look "Unity-like", not just the Terminal.

Method 2: Change Terminal's colour profile

If you just want to change the colour of Terminal's background and font without changing your GTK+ theme, you may tweak Terminal's colour profile manually.

First load Terminal with Ambiance theme as suggested above and get hex codes of all the colours using some colour-picker application like gpick. You may install gpick by

sudo apt install gpick

Then switch to your preferred GTK+ theme (application theme), in Terminal's Profile Preferences uncheck the "Use colours from system theme" option and manually create a colour profile using the collected hex codes.

Hex codes for Unity Terminal

  • #300A24 - Background (Purple)

  • #FEF8D9 - Text Colour (White)

    (courtesy of Rahul)

With the Hex codes provided above terminal looks something like this:
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(screenshot courtesy of Rahul)

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