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I've been tweekingtweaking the theme / color preferences in the Terminal.app a bit, after a while I found that when pressing a diacritical mark/accent/dead key there's a highlighted yellow rectangle showing a preview of the accent you're inputting. Here's an screenshot:

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It turns out is not editable from the terminal preferences. In fact it seems like a system wide setting.

But it IS incredibly annoying to guess what it is displaying with a dark background + lighter text color in the terminal app:

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Is there anyway to change that yellow color to correctly read those symbols no matter what text/background color is?

I've been tweeking the theme / color preferences in the Terminal.app a bit, after a while I found that when pressing a diacritical mark/accent/dead key there's a highlighted yellow rectangle showing a preview of the accent you're inputting. Here's an screenshot:

enter image description here

It turns out is not editable from the terminal preferences. In fact it seems like a system wide setting.

But it IS incredibly annoying to guess what it is displaying with a dark background + lighter text color in the terminal app:

enter image description here

Is there anyway to change that yellow color to correctly read those symbols no matter what text/background color is?

I've been tweaking the theme / color preferences in the Terminal.app a bit, after a while I found that when pressing a diacritical mark/accent/dead key there's a highlighted yellow rectangle showing a preview of the accent you're inputting. Here's an screenshot:

enter image description here

It turns out is not editable from the terminal preferences. In fact it seems like a system wide setting.

But it IS incredibly annoying to guess what it is displaying with a dark background + lighter text color in the terminal app:

enter image description here

Is there anyway to change that yellow color to correctly read those symbols no matter what text/background color is?

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Change highlight color for deadkey previews (like accents: `´^¨) in terminal app

I've been tweeking the theme / color preferences in the Terminal.app a bit, after a while I found that when pressing a diacritical mark/accent/dead key there's a highlighted yellow rectangle showing a preview of the accent you're inputting. Here's an screenshot:

enter image description here

It turns out is not editable from the terminal preferences. In fact it seems like a system wide setting.

But it IS incredibly annoying to guess what it is displaying with a dark background + lighter text color in the terminal app:

enter image description here

Is there anyway to change that yellow color to correctly read those symbols no matter what text/background color is?