Color schemes If you do not like the default Terminal theme, you may want to change the colors that are used for the text and background. You can use colors from your theme, select one of the presets or use a custom scheme. You probably saw this already, but in terminal settings there's also the option to create profiles.
Each profile can have a different color palette and some other things. Profiles are stored in org.gnome.terminal.legacy.profiles:, use gsettings or dconf editor to get there. This article dives deep into the colours, formatting and customisation of gnome-terminal, the default bash terminal for Ubuntu.
The majority of this article applies to many terminal variants, not only to Gnome/Ubuntu. I already know how to launch gnome-terminal with desired settings saved in a profile, e.g. gnome-terminal --profile=dark.
This is not what I want to achieve because I want the already opened windows to change the color scheme. The color palettes are all hard-coded so adding custom themes to gnome-terminal built-in Prefs Menu is not possible unless you are willing to patch the source code and recompile the application. One way of setting a custom color themes for your profile is via scripts.
Have a look at how solarize does it: gnome-terminal-colors-solarized Note, though, that gconf is EOL and future releases of. Importing a GNOME Terminal Profile This part assumes that you already have a profile exported from GNOME Terminal that contains the color scheme you want to apply. See below for more information on how to do this.
After installing GNOME Terminal on Elementary OS, there is no default profile created, and the only one that exists is an Unnamed. Open the terminal and select Edit -> Profile Preferences -> Colors tab -> uncheck Use colors from system theme. The only color customization in the below screenshot is to change the text color to white and the background color to black, like in the Windows cmd window, to improve readability.
If you are accustomed to using the Windows command line, you should give this color scheme a try. But on recent Ubuntu (20.04) you'll find ~/.gconf to be completely empty even if you have multiple Terminal profiles saved. That's because of the transition from GConf (for storing user preferences) to the combination of the GSettings high.
Where can I read the hex or RGB codes for colors used by the gnome-terminal? Under the terminal Preferences, I see it is using colors from the system theme, but I don't know where to read those. Running Linux Mint 17.1 with KDE. I use Konsole/Bash as my terminal, and I configured a nice colorscheme.
I would like to export this colorscheme so that I can use the exact same scheme on another machine. How do I export my colorscheme/terminal appearance settings?