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Is it possible to change the background (or window) color of open terminal window on Ubuntu GNOME environment? I would like to do this for tagging purpose when working with multiple terminals.

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  • see linked dupe question and answer, it has a nice chart of colour codes. there are also many more similar questions with answer on this site. – cas Aug 14 '17 at 13:11

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You can do so in GNOME Terminal and a few other (although not all) terminal emulators using the OSC 11 escape sequence with a color name or an #RGB code, e.g.:

echo -ne '\e]11;yellow\a'

or

echo -ne '\e]11;#abcdef\a'

Similarly, use number 10 instead of 11 for the default text color.

egmont
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