Mint-Y light theme has dark terminal background in nemo-terminal

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
76/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
css
Domain
design, desktop

Research direction

Start with /usr/share/themes/Mint-Y/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and inspect the vte-terminal.terminal-screen rules that hardcode the dark colors. Compare the light and dark theme variants, then verify in nemo-terminal that the light Mint-Y theme uses a light background with readable text after restarting Nemo.

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Description

When using the light Mint-Y theme in Linux Mint 22.3, nemo-terminal (Nemo embedded terminal) has a dark background (#222226) with white text, while the rest of the desktop is light.

This creates an undesirable contrast. Root cause: /usr/share/themes/Mint-Y/gtk-3.0/gtk.css hardcodes dark colors for vte-terminal.terminal-screen regardless of theme variant.

Expected: light theme → light terminal background.
Actual: light theme → dark terminal.

Workaround: override via ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, then restart nemo. Please fix in the theme package.

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