User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy) Build Identifier: (copied from Xfce mailing list) Request: change Terminal properties on the fly. This can be used to change the background color when using 'su', 'sudo' or 'ssh'. I use a combination of xterm with xtermcontrol to achieve the same, but xtermcontrol kills Terminal and I'd like to use Terminal instead of xterm. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
xtermcontrol uses escape sequences. Those are handled by VTE and hidden from the terminal emulator. If VTE would offer a hook for this, i.e. a signal to inform the terminal emulator about such commands, we could use that... in other words: file a feature request to VTE and come back once it's implemented in VTE (there's a new VTE maintainer, so there's indeed a chance that this can be implemented). ;-)
Maybe a stupid remark, but if it's possible to change the background color of a running terminal through the preferences why can't it be changed from the command line with some sort of DBUS triggered action?
Read my reply again... VTE consumes the escape sequences, so there's no way of the terminal application to even see them.
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