At least a partial solution - was [Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 06/23/2021 04:32 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/22/2021 11:23 AM, Siard wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:32:55, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 08:14:08, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > > I have vision problems.
> > > > I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases.
> > > > The program I'm running gives out colored text.
> > > > The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful.
> > > > Help please.
> > >
> > > This has already been addressed before: you must change the color scheme
> > > in the setting for MATE Terminal, to have it use black/dark gray/etc. as
> > > needed for everything related to text.
> > >
> > > The exact steps are different for each terminal emulator and I don't
> > > have MATE Terminal installed here.
> >
> > Well, I have. In the MATE Terminal settings (Edit > Profile Preferences),
> > tab 'Colors', under 'Palette', set 'Built-in schemes' to 'Custom' and
> > change every color in the color palette to black.
> >
> > Here is a screenshot:
> > https://i.postimg.cc/2yv17y3Y/mateterminalcolors.png
>
> I tried that yesterday and it didn't work.
> I tried it again this morning, after a good night's sleep.
> It still didn't work. BUT it finally registered that the settings I 
> changed were *NOT* being kept as in your screenshot.
>
> I am running Debian 9.13 with MATE Terminal 1.16.3
> Are you using the same?
> Suggestions?
> Thank you.

I have a secondary machine with Debian 10.7 which uses
MATE Terminal 1.20.2. That does save changes made using
Edit->Profile Preferences. I don't know yet if that solves all my 
problems with the local version of cht.sh discussed elsewhere.