Color Setting not working #11109

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opened 2026-01-31 02:38:52 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @huangzonghao on GitHub (Oct 22, 2020).

I am trying to change the color scheme of the terminal. But it seems that windows terminal is not responding to any of my settings related to color in settings.json, except for foreground, background and cursor color. No matter color scheme I entered in the settings file, the terminal would simply stay at the default color scheme, even after relaunch, reboot, reinstall. Plus setting the color directly in the profiles is not working as well. Is there something else in my system that might affect the behavior of windows terminal? or how could I possibly get it right?

My settings.json

{
    // "startOnUserLogin": true,
    "launchMode": "maximized",
    "showTabsInTitlebar": true,
    "$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema",
    "actions": [],
    "useTabSwitcher": false,
    "copyFormatting": false,
    "copyOnSelect": false,
    "defaultProfile": "{-removed-}",
    "profiles": {
        "defaults": {
        },
        "list": [
            {
                "colorSheme": "PaperColor",
                "cursorShape": "filledBox",
                "cursorColor": "#000000",
                "foreground": "#000000",
                "background": "#eeeeee",
                "selectionBackground": "#000000",
                "fontSize": 11,
                "fontFace": "Menlo",
                "fontWeight": "thin",
                "guid": "{-removed-}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Ubuntu",
                "scrollbarState": "visible",
                "source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl",
                "suppressApplicationTitle": false,
                "closeOnExit": "always",
                "startingDirectory": "\\\\wsl$\\Ubuntu\\home\\huangzonghao",
                // "tabTitle": "bash",
            },
            {
                // Make changes here to the powershell.exe profile.
                "guid": "{-removed}",
                "name": "Windows PowerShell",
                "commandline": "powershell.exe",
                "hidden": false,
            },
            {
                // Make changes here to the cmd.exe profile.
                "guid": "{-removed-}",
                "name": "Command Prompt",
                "commandline": "cmd.exe",
                "hidden": false,
            },
            {
                "guid": "{-removed-}",
                "hidden": true,
                "name": "Azure Cloud Shell",
                "source": "Windows.Terminal.Azure"
            }
        ]
    },
    // Add custom color schemes to this array.
    // To learn more about color schemes, visit https://aka.ms/terminal-color-schemes
    "schemes": [
        {
            "background": "#eeeeee",
            "black": "#000000",
            "blue": "#005faf",
            "brightBlack": "#1c1c1c",
            "brightBlue": "#005faf",
            "brightCyan": "#0087af",
            "brightGreen": "#008700",
            "brightPurple": "#d70087",
            "brightRed": "#af0000",
            "brightWhite": "#e4e4e4",
            "brightYellow": "#000000",
            "cursorColor": "#005faf",
            "cyan": "#0087af",
            "foreground": "#000000",
            "green": "#008700",
            "name": "PaperColor",
            "purple": "#d70087",
            "red": "#af0000",
            "selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
            "white": "#e4e4e4",
            "yellow": "#000000"
        }
    ]
}
Originally created by @huangzonghao on GitHub (Oct 22, 2020). I am trying to change the color scheme of the terminal. But it seems that windows terminal is not responding to any of my settings related to color in settings.json, except for foreground, background and cursor color. No matter color scheme I entered in the settings file, the terminal would simply stay at the default color scheme, even after relaunch, reboot, reinstall. Plus setting the color directly in the profiles is not working as well. Is there something else in my system that might affect the behavior of windows terminal? or how could I possibly get it right? My settings.json ``` { // "startOnUserLogin": true, "launchMode": "maximized", "showTabsInTitlebar": true, "$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema", "actions": [], "useTabSwitcher": false, "copyFormatting": false, "copyOnSelect": false, "defaultProfile": "{-removed-}", "profiles": { "defaults": { }, "list": [ { "colorSheme": "PaperColor", "cursorShape": "filledBox", "cursorColor": "#000000", "foreground": "#000000", "background": "#eeeeee", "selectionBackground": "#000000", "fontSize": 11, "fontFace": "Menlo", "fontWeight": "thin", "guid": "{-removed-}", "hidden": false, "name": "Ubuntu", "scrollbarState": "visible", "source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl", "suppressApplicationTitle": false, "closeOnExit": "always", "startingDirectory": "\\\\wsl$\\Ubuntu\\home\\huangzonghao", // "tabTitle": "bash", }, { // Make changes here to the powershell.exe profile. "guid": "{-removed}", "name": "Windows PowerShell", "commandline": "powershell.exe", "hidden": false, }, { // Make changes here to the cmd.exe profile. "guid": "{-removed-}", "name": "Command Prompt", "commandline": "cmd.exe", "hidden": false, }, { "guid": "{-removed-}", "hidden": true, "name": "Azure Cloud Shell", "source": "Windows.Terminal.Azure" } ] }, // Add custom color schemes to this array. // To learn more about color schemes, visit https://aka.ms/terminal-color-schemes "schemes": [ { "background": "#eeeeee", "black": "#000000", "blue": "#005faf", "brightBlack": "#1c1c1c", "brightBlue": "#005faf", "brightCyan": "#0087af", "brightGreen": "#008700", "brightPurple": "#d70087", "brightRed": "#af0000", "brightWhite": "#e4e4e4", "brightYellow": "#000000", "cursorColor": "#005faf", "cyan": "#0087af", "foreground": "#000000", "green": "#008700", "name": "PaperColor", "purple": "#d70087", "red": "#af0000", "selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF", "white": "#e4e4e4", "yellow": "#000000" } ] } ```
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