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  <title>Colours</title>
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        <gui style="guilabel">Foreground and Background</gui>
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                  Select the <gui style="guilabel">Use colours from system theme</gui> option to use the colors that are specified in the MATE Desktop theme that is selected in the <gui style="guilabel">Theme</gui> tab of the <app>Appearance</app> preference tool.
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                  Use the <gui style="guilabel">Built-in schemes</gui> drop-down list to specify the foreground and background colors for the terminal. <app>MATE Terminal</app> supports the following foreground and background color combinations: 
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            <gui style="guilabel">Black on light yellow</gui>
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            <gui style="guilabel">Black on white</gui>
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            <gui style="guilabel">Gray on black</gui>
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            <gui style="guilabel">Green on black</gui>
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            <gui style="guilabel">White on black</gui>
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            <gui style="guilabel">Custom</gui>
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                        This option enables you to select colors that are not in the selected color scheme. 
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                  The actual display of the foreground and background colors can vary depending on the color scheme that you choose. For example, if you choose <gui style="guilabel">White on black</gui> and the <gui style="guilabel">Linux console</gui> color scheme, the application displays the foreground and background colors as light gray on black. The <gui style="guilabel">Built-in schemes</gui> drop-down list is only enabled if the <gui style="guilabel">Use colours from system theme</gui> option is unselected. 
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                  Click on the <gui style="guibutton">Text colour</gui> button to display the <gui style="guilabel">Choose terminal text colour</gui> dialog. Use the color wheel or the spin boxes to customize the color that you want to use as the text color, then click <gui style="guibutton">OK</gui>. The <gui style="guibutton">Text colour</gui> button is only enabled if the <gui style="guilabel">Use colours from system theme</gui> option is unselected.
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                  Click on the <gui style="guibutton">Background colour</gui> button to display the <gui style="guilabel">Choose terminal background colour</gui> dialog. Use the color wheel or the spin boxes to customize the color that you want to use as the background color, then click <gui style="guibutton">OK</gui>. The <gui style="guibutton">Background colour</gui> button is only enabled if the <gui style="guilabel">Use colours from system theme</gui> option is unselected.
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        <gui style="guilabel">Palette</gui>
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                  The terminal emulation can only use 16 colors at a time to draw text. The color palette specifies these 16 colors. Applications that run in the terminal use an index number to specify a color from this palette.</p>
      <p>Use the <gui style="guilabel">Built-in schemes</gui> drop-down list to choose a preset color schemes. The color palette below and the contents of the terminal window both update to show the scheme.</p>
      <p>Use the <gui style="guilabel">Colour palette</gui> to customize the 16 default colors in the custom color palette. To customize a color, click on the color to display the <gui style="guilabel">Palette entry</gui> dialog. Use the color wheel or the spin boxes to customize the color, then click <gui style="guibutton">OK</gui>. 
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