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<p>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.</p>
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<p>How can I determine where the terminal widget is getting it's colors from? <code>$TERM</code> from the terminal widget yields <code>xterm</code>, and yet the terminal widget does not respect any configuration of xterm, for example from <code>.Xresources</code>. 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 <code>LS_COLORS</code> environment variable still works at least ... but I'd really like to be able to set colors in a normal config file.</p>
<p>On another note, it's confusing that setting <code>Preferences->Tools->Terminal</code> 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.</p>

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