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. Gogh is a collection of color schemes for various terminal emulators, including Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, and XFCE4 Terminal.
These schemes are designed to make your terminal more visually appealing and improve your productivity by providing a better contrast and color differentiation. 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. Color Scheme Implementer for Terminals Gogh is a collection of color schemes for various terminal emulators, including Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, and XFCE4 Terminal. These schemes are designed to make your terminal more visually appealing and improve your productivity by providing a better contrast and color differentiation.
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. Browse Konsole Color Schemes https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=462&ord=latest.
No, gnome-terminal is not meant to behave differently than the others, although the exact shade of the 16 base colors is somewhat different across all the terminal emulators. If you created a color scheme by experimenting with the menus (as in the screenshot below), you could back it up by noting the instructions in this answer: How to store my gnome terminal color palette Or you could run gconftool-2 -R /apps/gnome-terminal >> file.txt and then use those values in the resulting text file as the basis for a script. Color Schemes For Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and all distributions that use Gnome Terminal, Pantheon Terminal, Tilix, or XFCE4 Terminal; initially inspired by Elementary OS Luna.
Bright Red (9) has a particularly bright colour chosen, to avoid a luminance match with Blue (4) which could cause a dazzle effect. A live preview of this scheme is available on my terminal palette test page - select "GNOME Console (kgx) Proposed update". The existing palette is also present for comparison.