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I am trying to use Gedit as an IDE for learning C. So far everything is working great but i have this problem: when using ls in its embedded terminal I am unable to see all the files and directories in my workspace directory (only shows .c files but not the .out and other directories), yet when i run terminal from CTRL+ALT+T all the files in the current directory show.

I can't seem to figure out why this is happening, so any ideas would be greatly appreciated. it seems to me that only the colored files aren't showing in the embedded terminal and i need them to show.

thank you!

Braiam
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ramez
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The OP is asking about a problem in Gedit embedded terminal plugin.

The only problem here is that the colour scheme is not good i.e., white prompt on light grey background makes it almost impossible to work. To change the colour scheme follow the next series of steps:

  1. Open dconf-editor. If it is not installed, install it through the following command :

    sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

  2. Once installed, execute it using the following command :

    dconf-editor

  3. In the dconf editor window, go to org->gnome->gedit->plugins->terminal

    • deselect the use-theme-colors option.
    • clear palette settings
    • set foreground color: #FFFFFF
    • set background color: #000000

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  4. Now restart the gedit program.

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Observe that a colour scheme of black prompt over light background is now active.

kamil
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Verify your .bashrc file, and see if it contains the following:

alias ls='ls --color=auto'

If it doesn't have, add it. It must help to show dotfiles too.

muniz95
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