The embedded terminal in gedit has a white background and I would like to change it to black as it is in the teminal. I have tried this  but, the gedit key org->gnome->gedit does not exist in dconf and find doesn't find anything for gedit in dconf. How else can I change the background color?  I can not do that because org->gnome->gedit does not exist in dconf.
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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:    I want my embedded terminal in gedit to match my default terminal.
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As the question goes, How can I change the background of nautilus in Ubuntu 14.04 ??  I have already tried dconf-editor, gtk-tweaker, gnome-tweaker. They change the color of some parts of some pannel but not the background of nautilus in icons view.
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GNOME Terminal shows up in several places:   launchers which start terminal commands the Launch Terminal keyboard shortcut the menu items added by nautilus-open-terminal   Does each of these explicitly specify GNOME Terminal, or is there some centralized setting they reference?  I have checked for:   A setting in System Settings ▸ System Info ▸ Default Applications An analog of  or  An environment variable containing gnome-terminal. This one actually looks hopeful:  $ env | grep gnome-terminal COLORTERM=gnome-terminal   but I'm not sure where to go with it.   If such a setting exists, my goal is to change it to use a different terminal emulator by default.
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I use Gedit a lot and thus tend to have a lot of tabs open at any one time. In Gedit 2.* I could switch between tabs using my mouse wheel but since Oneiric I can't. I assume this is because of various GTK "upgrades".  Does anybody know of a plugin (or workable fix -- that doesn't require me to recompile everything and its brother) that will see me back to mousewheeling my day away?
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I have difficulties seeing, so I tried to change my cursor using the instructions from Ubuntu 11, 12 but nothing worked. I have found no one on this Internet with my problem. I run Ubuntu 14.04 and gnome 3.9, I have dconf-editer, compiz-config and they don't do anything to my computer.
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Keyboard shortcuts in gnome-terminal (Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab) in 12.04 don't seem to be working. Is there a setting that I dont know of?
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Is it possible to change the colors in the command prompt for the user@computer, as well as the the current directory and command parts of the prompt display?   I've already seen something like this done by OSX users, but I don't know how to do the same thing in gnome terminal (I can only change foreground and background colors).   It'd be very useful when, for example, trying to compile programs that have errors, since long, unformatted messages make it hard to distinguish which lines are commands and which are output.
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OS X has emoji support inside terminal, and I'm a little jelly.   brings emoji support to Ubuntu, but at the moment the terminal will only render monochrome emojis.  Is there a way to get these color beauties in gnome terminal?
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Note: I reworked the question to clarify the issues. This is a trivial question that can be answered in several parts because the question has several attributes.  Unfortunately, the question may be reworked when the person asking the question apprehends (knows) some parts of the answer as well as the structure of the question.  Therefore, the question is presented from a different point of view than the original one.  How to change the color setting¹ of the Linux console, using a shell utility? How to change the color setting¹ of a terminal emulator, using a shell utility?  Originally, I wanted to change the background color of the Linux console during the execution of a shell script. The following proposition works as I wanted.  #!/bin/sh  # set the background color of the terminal tput setab 6 clear  printf "%s\n" 'background: cyan'  # do some tasks  cd /usr/src/initramfs pwd ls -l  # the background of the shell output is cyan   Nonetheless, someone may encounter several glitches (or difficulties).   For instance, if the screen is not cleared, the background color is only applied to the text output, during a shell script execution. If the command tput setab 6 is submitted with the command line and the screen is not cleared, the background color is only applied to a small portion of the output text. If the command tput setab 6 is submitted on the command line and the screen is cleared, the background color is applied to the full screen but only persists until another command is submitted. [...]  ¹ background color
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Recently I installed gnome-desktop in my Unity Ubuntu 16.04.Now I want to set my Unity desktop environment as default.   I installed Gnome by using these commands :  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop   then chose gdm3 as default.  Now, I have searched on internet how to do so, one of them say this :  sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -s ubuntu   But it throws error saying :     sudo: /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults: command not found   I'm using ubuntu 16.04.
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I can change the colour through preference , but how can I change the background colour and text colour of terminal through the command line?
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While it's great that Terminal now has built-in support for changing the ANSI colors, I find it annoying that it automatically adjusts the colors to improve contrast, which means the colors that I actually pick often end up washed out or off in some other way. Here's a screenshot explaining the problem:     This bugs me because I like to use the same color scheme in Terminal and MacVim, and with this handling of colors by Terminal, they don't match up to the ones in MacVim.  Does anyone know of a solution to this, besides switching to iTerm 2 (which I'd rather not – I like the rest of Terminal, especially some GUI touches like the pulsating visual bell). Thanks!
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When using sudo powers and calling gedit the top level menu with File Edit View Search Tools Documents Help is missing.  If I create user ID root and sign in once and call gedit will it create the necessary user configuration files that might fix this?  Will this also make the annoying error messages go away whenever I use sudo, gksu or pkexec as a regular user with elevated privileges togedit ?  Will there be other benefits with Nautilus and other Gnome derivative Ubuntu applications?  NOTE: by sudo powers you can google pkexec gedit 3.5k hits, gksu gedit 40k hits or sudo gedit 500k hits. I'm in the minority using the first method but I believe it will become the standard in Ubuntu 17.04.    June 12, 2017 Update Here are a list of errors you get when using pkexec gedit:  (gedit:13003): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files  ** (gedit:13003): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-enabled not supported  ** (gedit:13003): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-encoding not supported  ** (gedit:13003): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported   On this  there is a commitment to fix these distracting messages as of June 5, 2017. No indication is given for when the fix will be upstream nor if the functionality will be implemented or the error messages will simply disappear.  Note the bug report was filed over a year ago and over that time it only effects 18 people.
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There's already  which point to various executables (with or without full path). , not necessarily the name of the executable (in xterm it's xterm-color, and in gnome-terminal it's xterm-256color). Is there a variable which is expected to contain the name or path of the executable to use as the default terminal in Linux? (Or Arch Linux, if there is a custom convention.) Maybe this is nonsensical, since GUI programs are rarely spawned from shells which know of these variables…
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The big dock on the left. In other versions you could escape Unity Launcher by going to GNOME, what now? GNOME tweaks is not showing it as an extension, even though it looks a lot like Dash to Dock.    I see autohide options in settings, but no way to completely remove it and use the GNOME default.  Edit: I'm not looking for vanilla GNOME, but simply to hide the dock.
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In terminal, the usual prompt text user@machine isn't green/blue as usual. Instead is is just white like the rest of the text. If I ssh into my server however, the colours are the same. Perhaps I've accidentally hit a button?  The settings in Edit → Profile Preferences → Colors look fine. The selected palette shown there is Linux Console.  I've tried using apt remove gnome-terminal &amp;&amp; apt install gnome-terminal but that still hasn't worked. I've also tried using the MATE Terminal method and using UXTerm but both of which are doing the same issue.
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First the picture:    As you can see in the image, the colors used for the icons and the words Applications and Places (In spanish in this case) have a different background dark gray color than the rest of the panel. Also the icons look rather bigger in that panel. Now my questions are:   Can the background colors be customized so they look the same all the way through the panel. Can the icons be somehow minimized a little so they don't look strange (bigger actually) How to edit the way to add icons to the panel. I have to actually hold the ALT key and right click on it to show the context menu which shows me the option to add something. That extra key press is not friendly at all.   In this particular case I am trying to help an older man start in Ubuntu. Unity is too much for him but Gnome is friendlier for him (Learning curve is not the best for older people.. specially 68+ year old people).