At least a partial solution - was [Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal]

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	At least a partial solution - was [Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal]
Date	2021-06-23 14:30 +0200
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On 06/23/2021 04:32 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/22/2021 11:23 AM, Siard wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>> On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>> I have vision problems.
>>>> I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases.
>>>> The program I'm running gives out colored text.
>>>> The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful.
>>>> Help please.
>>>
>>> This has already been addressed before: you must change the color scheme
>>> in the setting for MATE Terminal, to have it use black/dark gray/etc. as
>>> needed for everything related to text.
>>>
>>> The exact steps are different for each terminal emulator and I don't
>>> have MATE Terminal installed here.
>>
>> Well, I have. In the MATE Terminal settings (Edit > Profile Preferences),
>> tab 'Colors', under 'Palette', set 'Built-in schemes' to 'Custom' and
>> change every color in the color palette to black.
>>
>> Here is a screenshot:
>> https://i.postimg.cc/2yv17y3Y/mateterminalcolors.png
>>
> 
> I tried that yesterday and it didn't work.
> I tried it again this morning, after a good night's sleep.
> It still didn't work. BUT it finally registered that the settings I 
> changed were *NOT* being kept as in your screenshot.
> 
> I am running Debian 9.13 with MATE Terminal 1.16.3
> Are you using the same?
> Suggestions?
> Thank you.
> 

I have a secondary machine with Debian 10.7 which uses
MATE Terminal 1.20.2. That does save changes made using
Edit->Profile Preferences. I don't know yet if that solves all my 
problems with the local version of cht.sh discussed elsewhere.

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Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 15:20 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 15:30 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 15:30 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 15:50 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-06-22 16:30 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:30 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-06-22 15:30 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 15:40 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 21:20 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 16:00 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:40 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:40 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 17:40 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-06-22 18:50 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> - 2021-06-22 18:30 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-23 11:40 +0200
        Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> - 2021-06-23 13:40 +0200
        At least a partial solution - was [Re: Font color selection in MATE  terminal] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-23 14:30 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2021-07-02 07:40 +0200
        Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> - 2021-07-02 13:30 +0200
          Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2021-07-02 18:10 +0200
  Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2021-06-22 18:20 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-06-22 18:40 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2021-06-22 20:50 +0200
    Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-06-22 19:00 +0200
      Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 19:50 +0200
        Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-06-22 20:30 +0200
          Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 20:50 +0200
            Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2021-06-22 21:20 +0200
              Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 21:30 +0200
              Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 21:30 +0200
  RESOLVED: Font color selection in MATE terminal Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-24 13:10 +0200

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