How to permanantly change the color scheme of the terminal?

Question

I have just installed solarized color scheme for ubuntu gnome terminal. I have followed this tutorial. eval dircolors ~/.dircolor - this command s causing problems. When I use this command, it changes the color scheme of the terminal for ls. But if I restart the terminal the color scheme goes. What does that command do and how can I keep the preference permanently?

Solution

The steps I have used:

$ cd gnome-terminal-colors-solarized
$ ./install.sh

This script will ask you which color scheme you want, and which Gnome Terminal profile to overwrite.

Please note that there is no uninstall option yet. If you do not wish to overwrite any of your profiles, you should create a new profile before you run this script. However, you can reset your colors to the Gnome default, by running:

    Gnome >= 3.8 dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/
    Gnome < 3.8 gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gnome-terminal

By default, it runs in the interactive mode, but it also can be run non-interactively, just feed it with the necessary options, see 'install.sh --help' for details.

Please select a color scheme:
1) dark
2) dark_alternative
3) light
#?

#? 1

Please select a Gnome Terminal profile:
1) Standard
#?

#? 1

You have selected:

  Scheme:  dark
  Profile: Standard (:4d4a684a-7388-40db-adf1-6ec6b6f9043d)

Are you sure you want to overwrite the selected profile?
(YES to continue)

(YES to continue) YES
Confirmation received -- applying settings

The open the menu EditProfile Settings and Check your settings. It should look something like this (Sorry for the screenshot with German words).

• Farben means Colors
• Text- und Hintergrundfarbe means Text and background color
• Farbpalette means Color palette
• Integrierte Schemata means Built-in schemes
• dunkel Solarisiert means dark solarized
• Solarisiert means Solarized

Comments

[A.B.]

You should rephrase your question. List all steps that you did.

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

i did exactly what was told in the tutorial

[A.B.]

Is there a new profile in gnome-terminal?

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

no, just the default

[A.B.]

Edit the file src/set_theme_default_profile.sh and paste the line echo "### $PROFILE" at the end of the file. Post the output here.

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

which src folder?

[A.B.]

In the folder gnome-terminal..., cloned from git. And run set_dark again.

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

### Default - this is the output

[A.B.]

Ok, thank you. :) Give me more time. I've got to go sleep.

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

ok, i've got go to sleep too

[Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy]

so you want to alter only ls colors permanently or you want everything changed, including text color ?

[egmont]

eval dircolors ~/.dircolor – place this in your ~/.bashrc to be run every time you open a new shell.

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

yes i did that. the color scheme for the terminal had been changed but when I use ls, all the folders have the same color

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

that's why we need the first part

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

but that was not my question

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

eval dircolors ~/.dircolor this code does not change the color of the folders permanently

[A.B.]

The colors changed permanently by set_dark.sh and/or set_light.sh

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

it does change the color. but when i close the terminal and open it again, it changes back.

[odbhut.shei.chhele]

I know what wrote, i can just look at the top of page

[A.B.]

You should rephrase your question. List all steps that you did.

[egmont]

(Just a side note: beginning with Ubuntu Vivid, gnome-terminal ships the Solarized theme by default, there's no need to install it separately.)

[Pankaj Kumar Gautam]

the terminal gives me- bash: cd: gnome-terminal-colors-solarized: No such file or directory