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NAME

XTerm::Util - Utility routines for xterm-compatible terminal (emulator)s

VERSION

This document describes version 0.001 of XTerm::Util (from Perl distribution XTerm-Util), released on 2018-09-25.

SYNOPSIS

use XTerm::Util qw(
    get_term_bgcolor
    set_term_bgcolor
);

# when you're on a black background
say get_term_bgcolor(); # => "000000"

# when you're on a dark purple background
say get_term_bgcolor(); # => "310035"

# set terminal background to dark blue
set_term_bgcolor("00002b");

DESCRIPTION

Keywords: xterm, xterm-256color, terminal

FUNCTIONS

get_term_bgcolor

Usage:

my $rgb = get_term_bgcolor();

Get the terminal's current background color, or undef if unavailable. This uses the following xterm control sequence:

\e]11;?\a

and a compatible terminal will issue back the same sequence but with the question mark replaced by the RGB code, e.g.:

\e]11;rgb:0000/0000/0000\a

I have tested this works on the following terminal software (and version) on Linux:

MATE Terminal (1.18.2)
GNOME Terminal (3.18.3)
Konsole (16.04.3)

And does not work with the following terminal software (and version) on Linux:

LXTerminal (0.2.0)
rxvt (2.7.10)

The function will return a 6-hexdigit RGB value, e.g.:

000000
310035

which you can feed to, e.g.: "set_term_bgcolor" to set background color of terminal, or Color::ANSI::Util's ansibg to produce an appropriate escape sequance to set background color of text.

set_term_bgcolor

Usage:

set_term_bgcolor("000000");

Set terminal background color. This prints the following xterm control sequence to STDOUT:

\e]11;#123456\a

where 123456 is the 6-hexdigit RGB color code.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/XTerm-Util.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-XTerm-Util.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=XTerm-Util

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

Color::ANSI::Util

XTerm control sequence: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2018 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.