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Programmatic access to current xterm background color?
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Mar 15, 20266554 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
I would like to setup the prompt colors in depending on the colors it is using for foreground and background. For example, blue prompt if background is light and beige if it is dark. Is there a way to find out the current settings in a script?
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.bashrc
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The email back from Thomas Dickey (xterm's maintainer) has this. Note in particular the part about . The refers to where (the "Operating System Control" prefix) is and (the "String Terminator" suffix) is (backslash). The is one of the possible subco…
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