Globally change terminal background in centos 7

Question

I can globally change text in terminal using .bashrc, but I can't figure out how to change the white background to black. Going to terminal preferences doesn't work either.

Solution 1

Been struggling with this too. Finally found out you have to deselect "use colors from my system theme" checkbox for custom settings to take effect

Solution 2

if you want to use black background go to Edit-Preferences and select "Use dark theme" checkbox

Comments

[Gratin]

its the gnome-terminal

[Gratin]

I tried that it didn't work

[jimmij]

What does "didn't work" mean? The options are missing? Some error appears?...

[Gratin]

I changed it, it shows that I'm using/editing profile "black" and I set the background to black, but it's still white

[James Allen]

Yep, that did the trick!

[countermode]

Since the question is not very specific, you should be precise about which terminal emulator your answer applies to.