I'll add this here as I found this when googling the problem myself In for example xlde, when using the default "use system colours" its ends up rendering black on black, select your own colour scheme and you're good to go.
(this was in Ubuntu 12.04) I would consider this a bug .... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/194199 Title: no text in terminal Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal I am using linux mint darnya When I launch a terminal there is not text and I cannot type in it. I can click around and get menus but I cannot see where to click and I must do so by guessing. I have ctrl alt bckspc and also completely rebooted. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Feb 21 18:55:19 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: gnome-terminal 2.18.2-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal ProcCwd: /home/j450n ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-terminal Uname: Linux warpigs 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/194199/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

