8-Jul-2016
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IntelliJ IDEA is a fantastic IDE, much better than any other
IDE I've used in the past. It's my
IDE of choice for most of my professional development work so I use it on quite a regular basis. A really cool feature it has is that it's possible to run the
OS shell in a
Terminal tab. The default colour scheme of course sets the background to white and foreground to black, not very
Terminal-like. This is how you can get the
Terminal tab looking like it should.
Mine looks like this...
Changing these colours is easy. In the
Preferences, go to
Editor > Colors & Fonts > Console. Then set the
'Console background' to
Black.
After that set the
'Console standard output' to a bright green colour (or orange if you're feeling really nostalgic).
To save, click
OK. You'll probably notice nothing has changed, this happened to me too. I had to close the
Terminal tab (by clicking its
X button) and after I've opened it again, it had the new colours set properly.
I know the
Darcula scheme exists, but personally I do not like a dark background for code editing, but if you do, that scheme will change your
Terminal colours as well.
-i
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