How can I set background and foreground terminal colors from CLI in Ubuntu 15.10?

Asked Apr 28 '16 at 10:24

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I used to use this answer to set my terminal colors to black on white from the command line as follows.

gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/use_theme_colors" --type bool false
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/foreground_color" --type string "#000000000000"
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/background_color" --type string "#FFFFFFFFDDDD"

Unfortunately, while the values are set when I run these commands in Ubuntu 15.10, the gnome-terminal colors do not change at all.

What is the correct way to set terminal colors from the CLI in 15.10?

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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asked Apr 28 '16 at 10:24

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See http://askubuntu.com/q/745676/398785. – egmont Apr 28 '16 at 10:52
Note: gnome-terminal has switched from gconf to gsettings/dconf. – egmont Apr 28 '16 at 10:56

How can I set background and foreground terminal colors from CLI in Ubuntu 15.10?

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