=== modified file 'terminatorlib/terminal.py'
--- terminatorlib/terminal.py	2016-12-11 04:46:02 +0000
+++ terminatorlib/terminal.py	2016-12-11 23:37:01 +0000
@@ -671,6 +671,10 @@
         if self.config['use_theme_colors']:
             self.fgcolor_active = self.vte.get_style_context().get_color(Gtk.StateType.NORMAL)  # VERIFY FOR GTK3: do these really take the theme colors?
             self.bgcolor = self.vte.get_style_context().get_background_color(Gtk.StateType.NORMAL)
+            bgcolor = "#{0:02x}{1:02x}{2:02x}".format(int(self.bgcolor.red  * 255),
+                                                          int(self.bgcolor.green * 255),
+                                                          int(self.bgcolor.blue * 255))
+            print "During terminal reconfigure: %s" % (bgcolor)
         else:
             self.fgcolor_active = Gdk.RGBA()
             self.fgcolor_active.parse(self.config['foreground_color'])

=== modified file 'terminatorlib/terminator.py'
--- terminatorlib/terminator.py	2016-12-11 22:50:42 +0000
+++ terminatorlib/terminator.py	2016-12-11 23:31:58 +0000
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@
                 bgcolor = "#{0:02x}{1:02x}{2:02x}".format(int(bgcolor.red  * 255),
                                                           int(bgcolor.green * 255),
                                                           int(bgcolor.blue * 255))
+                print "During terminator reconfigure: %s" % (bgcolor)
                 tmp_win.remove(tmp_vte)
                 del(tmp_vte)
                 del(tmp_win)