Make gedit embedded terminal colours the same as the default terminal

Question

I've just updated to 11.10 and now my embedded terminal in gedit does not match my default terminal. I hate looking at a white and black terminal. Does anyone know how to make the embedded terminal match the default terminal?

This is a screenshot:

I want my embedded terminal in gedit to match my default terminal.

Answer 1

1. Make sure you have the following packages installed:

   • dconf-tools

   • gconf-editor

2. Open up gconf-editor and navigate to apps ➜ gnome-terminal and select a profile:

   

3. Now open up dconf-editor and navigate to org ➜ gnome ➜ gedit ➜ plugins ➜ terminal and uncheck the use-theme-colors key:

   

4. 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.

   

Answer 2

This is for gedit 3

Same problem here white on light gray.

I manually edited /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/terminal.py. Terminal used is xterm.

Search for:

fg = context.get_color(Gtk.StateFlags.NORMAL)
bg = context.get_background_color(Gtk.StateFlags.NORMAL)

I replace with

fg = Gdk.RGBA(0, 0, 0, 1)
bg = Gdk.RGBA(1, 1, 1, 1)

Info: fg = black text, bg = white background

Answer 3

Make sure you haven't ticked Use colors from system theme then it should work:

Answer 4

Open gconf-editor and go to apps->gnome-terminal->profiles->Default

• Uncheck the use-theme-colors option.
• Set foreground color: #FFFFFF
• Set background color: #000000

This will set the text to white and the background to black. It will set this for both the terminal and embedded terminal, if you would like to use different colors for each, then do this instead.

Open gconf-editor and go to apps->gedit-2->plugins

• Create a new key named use_theme_colors
• Set the type to: Boolean
• Set the value to: False
• Create a new key named foreground_color
• Set the type to: String
• Set the value to: #FFFFFF
• Create a new key named background_color
• Set the type to: String
• Set the value to: #000000

Edit the file /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins/terminal.py

Underneath the line:

GCONF_PROFILE_DIR = "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default"

Add a new line:

GCONF_GEDIT_DIR = "/apps/gedit-2/plugins"

Then replace the lines:

if not gconf_get_bool(self.GCONF_PROFILE_DIR + "/use_theme_colors"):
fg_color = gconf_get_str(self.GCONF_PROFILE_DIR + "/foreground_color", None)
bg_color = gconf_get_str(self.GCONF_PROFILE_DIR + "/background_color", None)

With:

if not gconf_get_bool(self.GCONF_GEDIT_DIR + "/use_theme_colors"):
fg_color = gconf_get_str(self.GCONF_GEDIT_DIR + "/foreground_color", None)
bg_color = gconf_get_str(self.GCONF_GEDIT_DIR + "/background_color", None)

Now you can the set the colors for the embedded terminal only, with the keys you created in apps->gedit-2->plugins

Answer 5

Inspecting terminal.py for Ubuntu 16.04, it seems it loads some legacy profile:

def get_profile_settings(self):
    profiles = self.settings_try_new("org.gnome.Terminal.ProfilesList")

    if not profiles:
        default_path = "/org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:" + profiles.get_string("default") + "/"
        settings = Gio.Settings.new_with_path("org.gnome.Terminal.Legacy.Profile",
                                              default_path)
    else:
        settings = Gio.Settings.new("org.gnome.gedit.plugins.terminal")

    return settings

Inspecting org.gnome.terminal.legacy.profiles: in dconf-editor, there was such a profile. After deleting it with:

dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/

I could change settings in org.gnome.gedit.plugins.terminal and have them take effect. For background-color, I had to disable use-theme-colours first.

Answer 6

in 13.04, the gconf-editor path to the properties has changed to: org -> gnome -> gedit -> terminal