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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:

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

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Could you please provide screenshots of what you got now and, if possible, what you want? – N.N. Oct 17 '11 at 12:01
My link is of the screenshot I took. I'm not sure how to show the screenshot otherwise. – Hugo Oct 17 '11 at 15:32
You can just press <img> button in the edit dialogue to upload an image. That is what I did in my edit. – N.N. Oct 17 '11 at 16:04

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  1. Make sure you have the following packages installed:

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

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

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  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.

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Thank you for the very detailed answer. Unfortunately when I am changing the values of the gedit terminal and then leave the edit text. The value I changed resets. Am I doing something stupid here? – Hugo Oct 20 '11 at 9:59
Wait I hit enter instead of unfocusing. Works great thanks. – Hugo Oct 20 '11 at 10:11
A great answer DoR, thanks. – Ingo Feb 12 '12 at 15:58
works great but my palette didn't seem to transfer. wish there were options in gedit->preferences->plugins->preferences. – waspinator Mar 8 '12 at 3:37
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This resolves the white on white issue on Precise (likely bug with the Ambiance theme) – prusswan Mar 23 '12 at 22:40
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@waspinator: To solve the palette transfer problem just make the 'Palette' setting empty in 'dconf' editor. But please don't forget to copy settings for 'background color' and foreground color from gconf to dconf, as described in 'DoR' post.

This fix will also work if you are not being able to view all the contents on your terminal as 'Palette' is still being followed from default.

Atul Kakrana

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Not having the palette colors transfer over is incredibly annoying. This is only a temporary fix... – Andrew Mao Oct 22 '12 at 18:44

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