gnome-terminal overrides colors set through xterm escape sequences in shell startup
Submitted by Daniel Miranda
Link to original bug (#705985)
Description
Using any scripts which output xterm control sequences to change terminal colors work when manually run in an existing terminal, but don't when placed in a shell startup script (e.g. .bashrc), I guess due to gnome-terminal setting its own colors after the scripts run, overriding the changes.
I am specifically trying to use some of the colors scripts from here:
https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell
I can confirm the commands are actually being run and working because:
a) Running the script manually in the shell prompt works b) Colors show up on startup when using the Drop Down Terminal GNOME Shell extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/442/drop-down-terminal/) c) Other startup commands like custom prompts work fine.
But placing them in .bashrc results in a terminal with the default colors (which I have not changed from the Fedora 19 standard configs).
Relevant program versions:
GNOME Terminal 3.8.4 GNU bash, version 4.2.45(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Fedora 19 x86-64
Resolution: RESOLVED FIXED