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I haven't looked into how one can export gnome-terminal color palettes yet, but if anyone else is interested, I think these are the correct settings in gconf:

    /apps/gnome-terminal/palette: #070736364242:#D3D336368282:#B5B589890000:#CBCB4B4B1616:#2A2AA1A19898:#6C6C7171C4C4:#858599990000:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#D3D301010202:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#26268B8BD2D2:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3
    /apps/gnome-terminal/background_color: #00002B2B3636
    /apps/gnome-terminal/foreground_color: #65657B7B8383
Edit: Ok, I pulled down the source for gnome-terminal since I couldn't find a way to export/import color schemes. The color palettes are all hard-coded, so that is unfortunate :(.


Ok, I think I had this wrong and it looks like I've hit a limit on editing my post. Here's the right values (I hope):

(All values are in /apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default):

    palette: #070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B3636:#CBCB4B4B1616:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#6C6C7171C4C4:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3
    background_color: #00002B2B3636
    foreground_color: #65657B7B8383


And here's the Light version:

palette: #070736364242:#D3D301010202:#858599990000:#B5B589890000:#26268 B8BD2D2:#D3D336368282:#2A2AA1A19898:#EEEEE8E8D5D5:#00002B2B363 6:#CBCB4B4B1616:#58586E6E7575:#65657B7B8383:#838394949696:#6C6 C7171C4C4:#9393A1A1A1A1:#FDFDF6F6E3E3

background_color: #FDFDF6F6E3E3

foreground_color: #00002B2B3636

(Same palette, just different FG and BG colours)


You can edit the custom palette (it gets saved in .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/XXXX/%gconf.xml).


agreed, but there is no mechanism for importing/exporting additional color schemes (I guess you could export an entire profile, but that entails quite a bit more than just color schemes).




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