Set good colors in terminal in a meaningful way

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For some strange reason, they've changed the terminal background to grey in Xubuntu 12.04, but I prefer a black one.
So, I set the background color to black: no big deal.
Unfortunately, the text colors were also changed to be readable on grey, and look horrible and eye-destroying on black, so what now?

Guessed correctly, there are people who take care of coloring terminal-based applications, and have therefore created the "Solarized" project.
You'll find color-themes for popular applications there (vim, emacs, ...).

Based on the solarized color-scheme, I've found
themes for the xfce4-terminal on github.

For a system-wide installation, do the following:

1) Fetch a copy of the repository:

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$ git clone https://github.com/sgerrand/xfce4-terminal-colors-solarized.git

2) Copy the "dark" theme to the terminalrc in /etc:

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$ cd xfce4-terminal-colors-solarized
$ sudo cp dark/terminalrc /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/Terminal/terminalrc 

3) Remove your existing user's terminal settings:

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rm ~/.config/Terminal

If you now close/restart your xfce4-terminal, you'll be greeted with a meaningful, based-on-black, color scheme!