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Tip: if you’re using the new GNOME Console and Fish shell, you don’t have to wait until the GNOME folks have colour schemes implemented if you want to customise yours.

fisher install FabioAntunes/base16-fish-shell

Then, in your console, type base16<tab> to see the list of different colour schemes you can try.

https://github.com/FabioAntunes/base16-fish-shell

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in reply to Aral Balkan

Me, trying to figure out what the binary for GNOME Console is called:

1. console… nope
2. gnome-console…nope

*goes to source code repository*

Ah… of course, it’s kgx. Why didn’t I think of that earlier?

:awesome:👍
in reply to morpheo

Hah, no, apparently it was called something else before where the acronym makes sense. Can only imagine they’ll be renaming it before it hits 1.0 :)
in reply to Aral Balkan

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense... I mean, it's gnome, of course it's a k thing.
in reply to Aral Balkan

ah, the King’s Cross (Terminal… GET IT? 🙄) heritage is showing. I imagine the binary was named `kgx` to make it faster to type which is funny for the name of the terminal emulator itself.
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Aral Balkan
It’s a built-in feature of GNOME Terminal (although far from ideal in usability if you want to set up your own custom scheme) and GNOME Console is still in beta. I’ve opened an issue asking them to reconsider the scope of the project given it’s going to be the default terminal app here:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console/-/issues/136