Hi, >>> As far I know it is pretty much impossible to figure the >>> foreground/background colors of the terminal you are running on. You >> >> Glad to hear that, I thought I hadn't researched that much (I did). Hope >> somebody appears and tell us how it is done :-) > > In xterm, '\e]10;?\e\\' and '\e]11;?\e\\' will report the colors, e.g.: > > #!/bin/bash > read -s -r -d \\ -p `printf '\e]10;?\e\\'` -t 1 fg > [ $? -ne 0 ] && fg="no response" > echo "foreground: $fg" | cat -v > read -s -r -d \\ -p `printf '\e]11;?\e\\'` -t 1 bg > [ $? -ne 0 ] && bg="no response" > echo "background: $bg" | cat -v
Works fine in xterm. Neither gnome-terminal (i.e. vte widget) nor konsole support this though. cheers, Gerd
