Fixing Terminal

[NoOp]

On 03/24/2010 05:00 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Lucid, which I started with the first Alpha, grew a purple
>> background and looked like a Mac. I was not happy and then found
>> System-Preferences-Appearance. There I was able to kill the purple
>> background and make it brown again. But the Terminal still had a purple
>> background with yellow letters.
> 
>> The main problem was that the purple background was not solid! I
>> could see things on my computer through the background and this was
>> distracting when trying to write a g++ source code. But I kept looking
>> and then tried what the terminal preference suggested and I was able to
>> get a white background with white letters just like it used to be. The
>> white background is not a see through.
> 
> This Apple-bashing cannot be but the manifestation of Apple-envy...
> 
> The Apple terminal is black on white. You are confusing the similarity
> of Lucid's desktop background to that of OS X with Lucid's default
> gnome-terminal settings when upgrading from Karmic (AFAIR, a clean
> install is dark grey on white).
> 

Default on a clean install lucid is the 'Ambiance' profile. That is what
Karl is referring to. It is a dark, transparent, with white text.
The upgrade from karmic to lucid also defaults now to this profile.
Easiest is to: Edit|Profiles|Profile used when launching a new terminal:
Legacy (on clean install), Default (on karmic upgraded machine).