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Make the background black, not white on Linux/Mac OS X Terminal?

Freshabout 2 months ago
Mar 15, 2026134459 views
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All I want to do is make the background for Mac OS X's Terminal Black so that I can run a Perl script with Terminal and have the background black for that. How would I do this for Mac OS X? How would I do this for an average Linux?

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I'm not sure about Linux but on Mac OS X you can change the theme in the preferences. Open Terminal, then go to the Terminal menu -> Preferences, choose the Settings tab and set the Pro theme as the default. If you don't need it as the default you cā€¦

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