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#1 2023-05-21 19:08:28
- HydroDiOxide
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[SOLVED] Change terminal cursor colour
I'm using GNOME Terminal with zsh/oh my zsh.
I can change my cursor colour to red with: echo -ne "\033]12;Red\007". (I have no idea what that code actually means.)
Can I change the cursor to an RGB colour or, at least, one of the colours I seen when running spectrum_ls?
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#2 2023-05-21 19:21:01
- seth
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Re: [SOLVED] Change terminal cursor colour
You can use #rrggbb colors:
printf '\e]12;#1793d0\007'Offline
#3 2023-05-21 19:36:00
- HydroDiOxide
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Re: [SOLVED] Change terminal cursor colour
You can use #rrggbb colors:
printf '\e]12;#1793d0\007'
Thanks for that. Would you mind breaking that command down, so I understand what the different segments do?
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#4 2023-05-21 19:42:31
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Re: [SOLVED] Change terminal cursor colour
printf '\e]12;#1793d0\a'\e is escape
12 is 12 (the ansii code for this action), https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html - search for "Change text cursor color to"
#1793d0 is the color, the archlinux bluyan (somewhere between blue and cyan)
\a is the bell
033 and 007 are just the integers for the escape and bell ascii's ("man ascii")
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Thanks.
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