[Bug?] The entire terminal is one color and color changes don't work

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I did a fresh install today , updated and proceeded to remove XFCE and install Gnome. The installation is flawless so far with the exception of one thing. The terminal uses only 1 colors for everything - users, bold text etc. I thought this was a gnome terminal bug but I installed Deepin Terminal and it had the same issue. No matter what theme or coloring I use, wether I enable > use colors from system theme it still stays the same. The only difference is that in Deepin terminal if I change the theme at least the color changes ( still only 1 color for everything) but it doesn’t represent the theme accurately. Screenshots:

Gnome Terminal:
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Deepin Terminal:
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It’s not the end of the world but still kinda annoying. I googled the issue but I see results from like 2010 and 2012 so I hope someone can help here.

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i think endeavouros using Bashrc. you can costumize it :slight_smile:

also possible to use https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zsh#Installation zsh :slight_smile:

also www.dotshare.it is also a lot themes to see and follow.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fish

i gues, endeavour os, configured kinda sober. with zsh example you can use themes, … in linux world is always between two giants, bashrc and zshrc

fish is a add on have also a nice options i gues also themes…

is about how thinks is configured in .bashrc , for zsh users in .zshrc

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zsh ist what I could be by default, but you can change to whatever you want

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Both bash and zsh give me the same problem. I change the color schemes from the terminal setting and nothing happens. This is bizzare. Always used to work from the graphical settings without having to edit files.

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echo $SHELL
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I’m using bash. Here’s the list that comes up when I list them.

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chsh -s /bin/zsh
To change to zsh then

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Yes I did it rebooted the system and the bug remains even with zsh . Only the background color and the main color can be changed. Anything else from the pallet doesn’t work.

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I would move related configs out of the way, to see if this is related, can check this later, on the road way home at the moment…

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Sorry to bother you during your travels. It’s nothing urgent it’s just slightly annoying and so far it’s actually the only bug I have so that’s a good thing. + It most likely has something to do with installing gnome / removing XFCE. Something might have gotten corrupt in the process god knows.

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Do you first install gnome and then remove xfce?
//I do not need to drive by my self so I can safely write here :wink:

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I did yes. That might have been an issue. Another thing I’m noticing is when I go to a directory let’s say I type cd ~/Downloads it doesn’t show me that I’m there.
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I am indeed there when I type ls I can see my files but it just doesn’t show it . This might be a deeper bug than originally thought. Also something to note is I’m not 100% sure but I believe when I first booted into gnome it showed me what directory I was in at least… weird

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If you are still on zsh but moved configs, you need to reconfigure​:hugs:

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And there is a BUG with fonts, upstream, so may related here too… I can look later, if I can reproduce and solve this

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Meanwhile I decided to do a clean install while I haven’t settled in yet and remove Xfce BEFORE adding gnome to avoid future headaches. Will keep you posted if bug persists.

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Are the servers down or something. I can’t download gnome.20190803_145149
It finds mirrors eventually but searches for minutes for every single package

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https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/
May not synced Always good to rank your mirrorlist for Archmirrors

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Strange earlier today I had 0 errors. Will rank for my country after install though for sure. Thanks again

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Update after brand new install with gnome and nothing else on it - bug persists
edit: Was talking about terminal bug

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My mirrors were completely “unsynced” somehow yesteday. Somehow. So I made a quick alias called “mirrors” for Reflector, so I can just run “mirrors && yay -Syyu” when updating my system.