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I use the gnome-terminal and most of my editors with a white on black theme as I find its easier on the eyes. One of my labs requires screenshots of the terminal (with the process) to be submitted along with program code.

So, is there a way to temporarily change the terminal to a black on white colour scheme, preferably from within the terminal itself ?

If not, is there a way to launch a child terminal with the inverted colour scheme, without affecting the parent terminal ?

asheeshr
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  • Why don't you simply invert the colors of the screen shot? It should be a one-liner with ImageMagick or similar. – tripleee Feb 09 '13 at 10:04

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You can use gconftool-2 - GNOME configuration tool. First, you can list all your gnome profiles with: 

$ gconftool-2 --get /apps/gnome-terminal/global/profile_list
[Default,Profile0]

Now you can print values for selected profile:

$ gconftool-2 -a "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default"

Store value of foreground and background color:

$ gconftool-2 --get "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/foreground_color"
#000000000000
$ gconftool-2 --get "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/background_color"
#EEEEEEEEECEC

Now you can turn off using theme colours:

$ gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/use_theme_colors" --type bool false

And set your own colours:

$ gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/foreground_color" --type string "#EEEEEEEEECEC"
$ gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/background_color" --type string "#000000000000"
Nykakin
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    Thanks. You could have said to put the last two commands in the same line. I had a white on white terminal for a few moments! – asheeshr Feb 09 '13 at 14:14