terminal color profile.

[bruno9779]

I really dislike having the terminal black on white, and change it the very first time I open it to white on black/dark.

Anyone else?

[koleoptero]

Depends on the GTK colours. I mostly use the same colour as the window decoration for the background and black or white text depending on it.

[Tibuda]

I use theme nine from http://phraktured.net/terminal-colors/

[wojox]

I like white font on a black background with transparency set at a quarter of the way.

[Bachstelze]

Light gray (#BBBBBB) on black. With transparency (20%) on laptops because of the small screen, without on desktops.

[BrokenKingpin]

Green on black... because it looks old school. Sometimes if I am doing a lot of work in the terminal I will switch to white on black just so it is a bit easier on the eyes.

[steelcap]

Green text on a black background - how a terminal is meant to look

[bruno9779]

I like white font on a black background with transparency set at a quarter of the way.

That is exactly my thing too.

[bruno9779]

I didn't think of green on black.

I should have put that there too

[mcduck]

White on dark purple, as I'm running 10.04 and stick to the default theme at least until the release.. :)

I always use white or light gray text on slightly transparent dark background. Dark text on light background just feels so wrong for a terminal... :D

[SnowRider]

I always change to (use colors from system theme)

[swoll1980]

Neon green on black, because stonecold said so.

[The Toxic Mite]

Green on black; much better for my eyesight IMHO

[Tristam Green]

hi-white #FFFFF on black, transparency on about 30%.

[VCoolio]

white on dark (#424242), with a lot of coloring for prompt and ls / cat / man / make etc output.

[whiskeylover]

White on Black.

And Black on White with a small font to make it look like notepad when around people, so they don't freak out when they realize I'm running Linux.

[dragonboss]

Green on transparent black or orange #FFA500 on transparent black

[Ozor Mox]

I always change it to green text on black background, because it makes me look more awesome.

Well actually, I just like it like that.

[kellemes]

Color: Light grey (b2b2b2) on black, no transparency.
Font: DejaVu Sans Mono, size 8

[scouser73]

Well for me ever since I've been on Ubuntu it's been Black text & White background, now with Lucid it's White text & Purple background so I've kept is as is.

[AllRadioisDead]

I use theme nine from http://phraktured.net/terminal-colors/
This might sound noob, but how would I got about implementing this? I have a feeling it has something to do with a file called Xdefaults, but I don't know much about that.

[Tibuda]

This might sound noob, but how would I got about implementing this? I have a feeling it has something to do with a file called Xdefaults, but I don't know much about that.

Yeah, you should paste that into the ~/.Xdefaults file, but it only makes effect on xterm and urxvt, not on gtk+ based terminals. You could copy and paste each hex code into the gnome-terminal preferences dialog...

[d3v1150m471c]

white font, black background. period.

[blueshiftoverwatch]

White/colored text on a black background, same as IRC. I like how the termial on Unix-like OS's use colors to differentiate various filetypes. It's a big improvement over Microsoft's monochrome cmd.exe.

[d3v1150m471c]

the colour differential is a nice touch.

[szymon_g]

for me- the best is greenish on dark grayish background (or light grayish font on blackish background)

[falconindy]

white on black, tango'ish color scheme:


! Black
*color0: #000000
*color8: #555753

! Red
*color1: #ff6565
*color9: #ff8d8d

! Green
*color2: #93d44f
*color10: #c8e7a8

! Yellow
*color3: #eab93d
*color11: #ffc123

! Blue
*color4: #204a87
*color12: #3465a4

! Mangenta
*color5: #ce5c00
*color13: #f57900

! Cyan
*color6: #89b6e2
*color14: #46a4ff

! White
*color7: #cccccc
*color15: #ffffff

! vim: syn=xdefaults et sw=2

[MooPi]

Black bckgrnd, & Green txt........ Other colors alright but I always go back to black & green