I'd like to have a --background or --bg-color option added to xfce4-terminal. I'm using different tinted background colors for my most used remote hosts. xfce4-terminal and all other libvte based terminals i've tested lack this option, even though they allow that functionality in general. I'm currently working with this workaround which causes all kinds of problems with escaping when also using a remote command: xfce4-terminal -e "bash -c 'echo -ne \"\033]11;#210000\a\"; exec ssh <host>'" A "--background=#210000" option to define the initial background color like the old school terminals like xterm have would really make things easier.
Hi, and thanks for the suggestion. It appears to duplicate an ancient bug #4887. Since the idea has received support from you, I'll add command line options for foreground and background colors. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4887 ***