Fixing Terminal

[Tom H]

>> 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).

I cannot remember when I last did a clean Lucid install but it may
have been Alpha so the black-on-white might have been a bug...