[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Terminal color scheme not possible (#2180)

[Rodeo-McCabe]

>The builtin terminal in the Messages Window notebook at the bottom (or side in your case), is totally separate, it's a terminal widget builtin to Geany, and has nothing to do with xfce4-terminal or other terminals. The builtin terminal only lets you change the default background and foreground colours using Preferences->Terminal.

How can I determine where the terminal widget is getting it's colors from? `$TERM` from the terminal widget yields `xterm`, and yet the terminal widget does not respect any configuration of xterm, for example from `.Xresources`. It also doesn't get anything from whatever terminal you've configured. VTE3 doesn't have anything for configuring colors that I could find. The `LS_COLORS` environment variable still works at least ... but I'd really like to be able to set colors in a normal config file.

On another note, it's confusing that setting `Preferences->Tools->Terminal` doesn't affect the terminal widget in the message window. Intuitively you'd expect that setting the terminal set everything to do with the terminal (particularly the actual terminal that you see as a user). A tooltip or a more descriptive name would be good.

-- 
You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2180#issuecomment-643916949
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.geany.org/pipermail/github-comments/attachments/20200614/17b2b714/attachment.htm>