Bug#750597: and others: gnome-terminal default colours are black-on-black in XFCE (use colours from system theme)

[Simon McVittie]

forcemerge 683744 692610 750597
thanks

On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 at 22:27:03 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> When starting gnome-terminal in XFCE, text is invisible because it
> is black-on-black. Unsetting "Use colours from system theme" in profile
> and selecting a Built-in scheme (eg. white on black) worksaround the
> problem. Would be nice if the default was white-on-black in XFCE, as
> it is a non-obvious problem for a user.

(Earlier, Stefan Laubig and Jakub Wilk sent similar bug reports about LXDE
and an unspecified non-GNOME environment.)

These are all reports of the group of bugs merged into #683744,
and should be fixed in 3.12.3-2. I used black-on-white as the fallback,
because that matches what will happen post-jessie with Gtk 3.14, which
changes Gtk's built-in fallback theme from Raleigh (the ugly grey one) to
Adwaita (the default GNOME 3.x theme).

If you prefer light text on a dark background (like I do), please configure
gnome-terminal to use another colour scheme option or a custom colour scheme.

An alternative workaround is to install gnome-themes-standard and set the
Gtk 3 theme to Adwaita as described in
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683744#34>,
which will also make any other Gtk 3 applications look a lot better.

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