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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
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type="topic"
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id="app-colors">
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<info>
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<revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-02" status="candidate"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.34" version="0.2" date="2020-01-04" status="candidate"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="index#appearance"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="pref#profile"/>
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<credit type="author copyright">
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<name>Sindhu S</name>
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<email>sindhus@live.in</email>
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<years>2013</years>
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</credit>
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<credit type="author copyright editor">
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<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
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<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
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<years>2013</years>
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</credit>
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<credit type="copyright editor">
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<name>Michael Hill</name>
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<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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<years>2013</years>
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</credit>
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<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
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<desc>Change colors and backgrounds.</desc>
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</info>
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<title>Color schemes</title>
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<p>If you do not like the default <app>Terminal</app> theme, you may want to
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change the colors that are used for the text and background. You can use
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colors from your theme, select one of the presets or use a custom scheme.</p>
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<section id="system-theme">
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<title>Use colors from your system theme</title>
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<p>To use colors from the system theme:</p>
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<steps>
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<item>
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<p>Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and select
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<gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>In the sidebar, select your current profile in the <gui>Profiles</gui>
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section.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Select <gui style="tab">Colors</gui>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Check <gui style="checkbox">Use colors from system theme</gui>. The
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changes will be applied automatically.</p>
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</item>
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</steps>
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</section>
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<section id="built-in-scheme">
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<title>Built-in schemes</title>
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<p>You can choose one of the built-in color schemes: <gui>Black on light
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yellow</gui>, <gui>Black on white</gui>, <gui>Gray on black</gui>,
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<gui>GNOME light</gui>, <gui>GNOME dark</gui>,
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<gui>Green on black</gui>, <gui>White on black</gui>, <gui>Tango
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light</gui>, <gui>Tango dark</gui>, <gui>Solarized light</gui>,
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<gui>Solarized dark</gui>. To set any of the built-in schemes:</p>
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<steps>
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<item>
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<p>Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and select
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<gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>In the sidebar, select your current profile in the <gui>Profiles</gui>
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section.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Select <gui style="tab">Colors</gui>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Make sure that <gui style="checkbox">Use colors from system
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theme</gui> is unchecked. Choose the desired color scheme from
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<gui>Built-in schemes</gui>. Color scheme choices are applied
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automatically.</p>
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<note>
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<p>Applications can choose to use a color from the palette rather
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than the specified bold color.</p>
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</note>
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</item>
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</steps>
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</section>
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<section id="custom-scheme">
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<title>Custom color scheme</title>
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<p>You can use custom colors for the text and background in
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<app>Terminal</app>:</p>
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<steps>
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<item>
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<p>Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and select
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<gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>In the sidebar, select your current profile in the <gui>Profiles</gui>
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section.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Select <gui style="tab">Colors</gui>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Make sure that <gui style="checkbox">Use colors from system
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theme</gui> is unchecked. Select <gui>Custom</gui> from the
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<gui>Built-in schemes</gui> drop-down list.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Click on the color you would like to change.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Choose your desired color from the color sample and click
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<gui style="button">Select</gui>.</p>
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<p>You can choose the desired color in the following ways:</p>
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<list>
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<item>
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<p>Input the hexadecimal color code in the input box.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Drag the slider on the left to adjust the colors and click on
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the desired color in the color selection area.</p>
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</item>
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</list>
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<p>Your changes will be saved automatically.</p>
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</item>
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</steps>
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<note style="tip">
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<p>You may also alter a color when you have chosen a built-in scheme by
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clicking on the color sample block. Once changed, your selection in the
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built-in scheme menu will change to <gui>Custom</gui>.</p>
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</note>
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<note style="tip">
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<p>Traditionally terminal emulators offered a 16 color palette, this is
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what you can alter here. <app>Terminal</app> supports an extended set of
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256 colors, but the additional 240 colors cannot be edited here.</p>
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<p><app>Terminal</app> even offers direct access to over 16 million
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colors, this is called “true color” mode.</p>
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<p>If the changes you make to the palette do not seem to have an effect,
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presumably the contents you see consist of such extended palette colors
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or true colors, rather than the 16 base colors.</p>
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</note>
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</section>
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<section id="bold-is-bright">
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<title>Bright colors for bold text</title>
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<p>Traditionally terminals didn't clearly separate bold font weight from
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intense colors, often both of them were enabled together. Recent
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improvements, such as the introduction of true color support, and certain
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color schemes (e.g. Solarized) made it desirable to separate the two
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concepts, that is, make the brightness independent from the font weight.</p>
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<p>In order to choose your preferred behavior:</p>
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<steps>
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<item>
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<p>Press the menu button in the top-right corner of the window and select
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<gui style="menuitem">Preferences</gui>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>In the sidebar, select your current profile in the <gui>Profiles</gui>
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section.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Select <gui style="tab">Colors</gui>.</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Disable <gui>Show bold text in bright colors</gui> for the new
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default behavior, the complete separation of color intensity and font
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weight; or enable this option for improved backward compatibility.</p>
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</item>
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</steps>
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</section>
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</page>
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