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black backgrounds appear grey on gnome-terminal

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Mar 15, 20264423 views
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Running gnome under Ubuntu Lucid I had to edit both my .muttrc and my vim colorscheme to change the background color from to in order to get a proper black background (or, more accurately, to retain the terminal's default black background). Setting it to resulted in a dark grey background. This onl…

Error Output

$ env | grep TERM
TERM=xterm
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal

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Fix for: black backgrounds appear grey on gnome-terminal

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I found a solution to this. I'm now using GNOME Terminal 2.32.0 and it still has the same problem. I fixed it by changing the color pallete. From the Edit menu, select Profile Preferences, then the Colors tab. Click on the upper left rectangle in th…

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