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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Manipulate terminal session background color Post 302560280 by Corona688 on Thursday 29th of September 2011 10:47:20 AM
Old 09-29-2011
Change background color then clear the screen(using the 'clear' utility, or 'tput clear'), that should set the entire window.

---------- Post updated at 08:47 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:43 AM ----------

Code:
\033[33;33m

This seems redundant -- you're setting the same foreground color twice. 3x is foreground color, 4x is background color. 1 makes the foreground extra bright.

Try
Code:
printf "\033[1;33;43m" ; clear

bright yellow on dark yellow.

Code:
printf "\033[0;30;47m" ; clear

white background on black text. I don't think you can make the background brighter.

printf is more portable than echo -e -- echo -e is mostly a linux thing.
 

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NCURSES_COLOR_SET(3)							 1						      NCURSES_COLOR_SET(3)

ncurses_color_set - Set active foreground and background colors

SYNOPSIS
int ncurses_color_set (int $pair) DESCRIPTION
Sets the active foreground and background colors. Any characters written after this function is invoked will have these colors. This func- tion requires terminal colors to be supported and initialized using ncurses_start_color(3) beforehand. ncurses uses color pairs to specify both foreground and background colors. Use ncurses_init_pair(3) to define a color pair. PARAMETERS
o $pair - The color pair from which to get the foreground and background colors to set as the active colors. RETURN VALUES
Returns -1 on success, and 0 on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Writing a string with a specified color to the screen <?php ncurses_init(); // If the terminal supports colors, initialize and set active color if (ncurses_has_colors()) { ncurses_start_color(); ncurses_init_pair(1, NCURSES_COLOR_YELLOW, NCURSES_COLOR_BLUE); ncurses_color_set(1); } // Write a string at specified location ncurses_mvaddstr(10, 10, "Hello world! Yellow on blue text!"); // Flush output to screen ncurses_refresh(); ncurses_end(); ?> SEE ALSO
ncurses_init_pair(3), ncurses_start_color(3). PHP Documentation Group NCURSES_COLOR_SET(3)
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