[nemo-terminal] - Request - Change color

[greg-hydrogen]

Hello Everyone,

It would be nice if the color of the terminal could be changed. Currently my default terminal is black text on a white background and I would like the same for nemo-terminal, but I don't see any way to do this

[brianhojensorensen]

Completely agree. I have the exact same setup, and prefer black text on whit background.

[john9631]

Another vote for the ability to change colors. My eyes are not good enough for the current scheme sadly so I'm going to disable the built in terminal.

[DaviMenezes]

it is very useful, but this color is very ugly

[TimsManter]

It would be neat to add option to choose color. This is one feature I feel lack of, especially on Arc-Dark theme.

[vassilisw]

WHY this is closed?

[leigh123linux]

@vassilisw It is now!

[vassilisw]

Nice way resolving issues dude!

[vassilisw]

Anyway, here you go people...
Edit the nemo_terminal.py file in src directory:

Add Pango for the fonts:

from gi.repository import Pango

Customize cursor type, font, fg, bg color, etc in __init__ function:

def __init__(self, uri, window):
    """The constructor."""
    self._window = window
    self._path = self._uri_to_path(uri)
    #Term
    self.shell_pid = -1
    self.term = Vte.Terminal()

mods start here:

    ...

    # for top/bottom placement, search for 'Terminal pane position' in org.nemo.extensions.nemo-terminal.gschema file
    self.term.set_cursor_shape(1)  #VTE_CURSOR_SHAPE_IBEAM

    font = 'Monospace 10'
    self.term.set_font(Pango.FontDescription(font))

    fg_color = '#000000'
    bg_color = '#E7E7E7'
    try:
        self.term.set_colors(Gdk.color_parse(fg_color),
                             Gdk.color_parse(bg_color),
                             [])
    except TypeError:
        self.term.set_colors(Gdk.RGBA(*Gdk.color_parse(fg_color).to_floats()),
                             Gdk.RGBA(*Gdk.color_parse(bg_color).to_floats()),
                             [])

    # I disabled the audible-bell
    # settings.bind("audible-bell", self.term, "audible-bell", Gio.SettingsBindFlags.GET)

    ...

[clefebvre]

Hi @greg-hydrogen @vassilisw, everyone.

It's a good idea to fix this, although it isn't really a bug but a feature request. Leigh's way of closing this isn't very nice, though once read there's no reason to keep it open.

@vassilisw if you have the time, I would suggest a pull request to implement this. In your patch you hardcoded the color, that's not ideal. I also think it would be overkill to make this configurable, but what could be nice would be to assign the CSS style names used in gnome-terminal, that way all the themes which currently support gnome-terminal would make nemo-terminal render the same way.

[boussou]

this was not working for me, bad color type.

Here is my change :

    self.term.set_cursor_shape(0)  #VTE_CURSOR_SHAPE_: 0 1 or 2

    self.term.set_colors( 
                            Gdk.RGBA(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0), # fg_color
                            Gdk.RGBA(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.9), # bg_color
                             [])

[Axel-Erfurt]

I tried this as a test.

in file /usr/share/nemo-python/extensions/nemo_terminal.py

added Pango in line 57

from gi.repository import GObject, Nemo, Gtk, Gdk, Vte, GLib, Gio, Pango

inserted after line 84 (self.term = Vte.Terminal())

        ###################start theming##############################
        self.term.set_font(Pango.FontDescription.from_string("Noto Mono, 9"))
        self.term.set_scroll_on_output(True)
        self.term.set_scroll_on_keystroke(True)
        palette = [Gdk.RGBA(0.4, 0.8, 0.8, 1.0)] * 16
        self.term.set_colors(Gdk.RGBA(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0), Gdk.RGBA(0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1.0), palette)
        self.term.set_color_highlight(Gdk.RGBA(0.3, 0.3, 0.9, 1.0))
        self.term.set_color_highlight_foreground(Gdk.RGBA(0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 1.0))
        ###################end theming##############################