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Tango terminal

Friday, July 7, 2006 ★ 15:12 ★ Category Gnome

I’ve been using the color palette from the Tango Desktop Project in gnome-terminal for a while now. It is quite easy on the eyes and integrates well with the Tango icon colors used in my Gnome desktop.

default colors in gnome-terminal

Before: default colors in gnome-terminal

Tango colors in gnome-terminal

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You can do the same by using the gnome-terminal interface, but that is a lot of work. Luckily, editing a gconf key does the same: fire up gconf-editor and edit
/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/palette (you can also change another profile) and set the value to this string:

#2E2E34343636:#CCCC00000000:#4E4E9A9A0606:#C4C4A0A00000:#34346565A4A4:#757550507B7B:#060698209A9A:#D3D3D7D7CFCF:#555557575353:#EFEF29292929:#8A8AE2E23434:#FCFCE9E94F4F:#72729F9FCFCF:#ADAD7F7FA8A8:#3434E2E2E2E2:#EEEEEEEEECEC

The small script used for the screenshots can be found here: ansicolortable

Update: Let’s get this upstream! Bug and patch over here. The patch adds the Tango palette to the list of built-in color palettes.

Update: Patch committed, so this can be enabled by default.

Update: This color scheme is now the default in recent Gnome terminal versions!