Bug#692610: gnome-terminal: black text on black background

[Simon McVittie]

On 21/02/13 14:57, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Is it really possible that we are shipping a gnome-terminal
> having so insane defaults? Or maybe there a missing dependency somewhere?
> Perhaps a recommends that should instead be a Depends?

I suspect that either the terminal is failing to pick up colours from
where a GNOME desktop would make them available and defaulting to
all-zeroes (black) for both, or it's picking up the foreground but not
the background (or something).

As far as I understand it, the "colors from system theme" should be the
same ones used for things like GtkEntry, normally black text on a white
background. On a GNOME desktop, I think gnome-settings-daemon is
involved in advertising these colours to applications via Xsettings?

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