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