02-12-2002
What type of window or Telnet session do you use?
If it is a telnet session you should be able to change the colors from the toolbar at the top of the telnet session.
I use a Chameleon Terminal. What type of terminal do you use?
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
tcgetsid
TCGETSID(3) Linux Programmer's Manual TCGETSID(3)
NAME
tcgetsid - get session ID
SYNOPSIS
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500
#include <termios.h>
pid_t tcgetsid(int fd);
DESCRIPTION
The function tcgetsid() returns the session ID of the current session that has the terminal associated to fd as controlling terminal. This
terminal must be the controlling terminal of the calling process.
RETURN VALUE
When fd refers to the controlling terminal of our session, the function tcgetsid() will return the session ID of this session. Otherwise,
-1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EBADF fd is not a valid file descriptor.
ENOTTY The calling process does not have a controlling terminal, or it has one but it is not described by fd.
VERSIONS
tcgetsid() is provided in glibc since version 2.1.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
This function is implemented via the TIOCGSID ioctl(2), present since Linux 2.1.71.
SEE ALSO
getsid(2)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
GNU
2008-06-14 TCGETSID(3)