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#1 2004-09-23 11:31:01

merc
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Registered: 2004-09-20
Posts: 7

Change color scheme of Terminal in XFCE4 ? *SOLVED*

The default install of XFCE4 has a terminal with black text on white background. I find it a bit too bright, and its not as easy on the eyes as white text on black bg. When I used to use KDE, the terminal came with 'themes', one of them being 'linux colors', which I have gotten used to.

Is there any config file I can edit / menu option to change to alter the color scheme of the XFCE4 terminal?

(I tried xfce4rc and menu.xml, but couldn't find anything regarding color schemes in there)

Thanks in advance.

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Edit:

Took Hum's advice. Look below for solution.

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#2 2004-09-23 13:11:50

xerxes2
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From: Malmoe, Sweden
Registered: 2004-04-23
Posts: 1,249
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Re: Change color scheme of Terminal in XFCE4 ? *SOLVED*

here is my ~/.Xdefaults

#aterm settings
aterm*foreground: white
aterm*background: black
aterm*transparent: true
aterm*shading: 30
aterm*saveLines: 1000
aterm*tintingType: true
aterm*tinting: #c0c0c0
aterm*fading: 50
aterm*transpscrollbar: true
aterm*scrollBar: off
aterm*pointerColorBackground: black
aterm*loginShell: true
aterm*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*boldFont:*-*-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
#
#xterm settings
#
XTerm*faceName:     Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Roman
XTerm*faceSize:     12
XTerm*scrollBar:    off
XTerm*background:   black
XTerm*foreground:   gray
XTerm*cursorColor:  yellow
XTerm*color0:   black
XTerm*color1:   #40e0d0
XTerm*color2:   #87cefa
XTerm*color3:   #ffff00
XTerm*color4:   #d1eeee
XTerm*color5:   #eed8ae
XTerm*color6:   #b4eeb4
XTerm*color7:   gray
XTerm*color8:   gray40
XTerm*color9:   #ee6363
XTerm*color10:  #c5f779
XTerm*color11:  #fff796
XTerm*color12:  #00b2ee
XTerm*color13:  #cf9ebe
XTerm*color14:  #71bebe
XTerm*color15:  white
#
#urxvt settings
#
#URxvt*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
URxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=14
URxvt*inheritPixmap: true
URxvt*foreground: white
URxvt*background: black
                                                                                                      

I don't know wich one is the default terminal in xfce4 but it could be xterm.

There is also gnome-terminal wich got built in configuration, it is bigger in memory but I like it.

pacman -S gnome-terminal

arch + gentoo + initng + python = enlisy

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#3 2004-09-23 13:18:05

Hum
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Registered: 2004-06-13
Posts: 46

Re: Change color scheme of Terminal in XFCE4 ? *SOLVED*

xfterm -bg black -fg white

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#4 2004-09-23 16:03:30

Dreameen
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From: Poland
Registered: 2004-09-06
Posts: 252

Re: Change color scheme of Terminal in XFCE4 ? *SOLVED*

By default, when you click on the terminal icon on xfce4 panel, it runs the xterm terminal which looks dull and is not very readable with the default settings.

So here's what you can do, install aterm with pacman -S aterm, then right click on teh terminal icon and put "aterm" next to Command option. Next you can play around with the settings in aterm to suit your needs, when you're finished remember to save your configuration. If you don't feel like customizing your aterm, you can put these in your .Xdefaults file in home directory:

aterm*loginShell:true
aterm*transparent:true
aterm*shading:60
aterm*background:Black
aterm*foreground:Yellow
aterm*scrollBar:true
aterm*scrollBar_right:true
aterm*transpscrollbar:true
aterm*saveLines:32767
aterm*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*boldFont:*-*-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
aterm*borderLess:true

You may ask why did i choose aterm when there are so many good terminals like Eterm, rxvt...Personally, i prefer aterm because it's very customizable, futuristic, lightweight...erm..i simply like it. big_smile

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#5 2004-09-24 03:11:16

merc
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Registered: 2004-09-20
Posts: 7

Re: Change color scheme of Terminal in XFCE4 ? *SOLVED*

Hum wrote:

xfterm -bg black -fg white

Took your idea, and changed it to "xfterm -bg black -fg gray" , and its perfect. Thanks a lot smile

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