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Re: ANSI bg colour outside of prompt area

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From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ANSI bg colour outside of prompt area
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:58:12 +0100
In-reply-to: <20150222200735.GA14096__25621.2553395473$1424635776$gmane$org@wintermute> (junkcommander0@gmail.com's message of "Sun, 22 Feb 2015 15:07:35 -0500")
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junkcommander0@xxxxxxxxx writes:

> As a workaround for now I have a little alias that switches the value
> of the background colour in st's config.h, and recompiles it. It's not
> quite the same as toggling it in the terminal I'm working in, but it's
> not terribly difficult to open a new terminal with a different
> background colour.

In xterm and urxvt, you can do

printf '\033]10;%d\a\033]11;%d\a' $fgcolor $bgcolor

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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>  http://chneukirchen.org

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