Set terminal background color

[ajeetdsouza]

Hey, thanks for the fantastic set of libraries!

It would be great to have a way to set the background color for the entire terminal, which would be reset upon exit. This is useful for apps that use AltScreen.

[meowgorithm]

Hi there! This is totally possible with Lip Gloss.

Here’s an example.

The gist of it is:

1. Define a lipgloss.Style for your application with your background color
2. Listen for tea.WindowSizeMsgs to get the terminal's dimensions
3. Set the width and height on your application style in your View() as you render

Let us know if you have any more questions, and feel free to hop in our Slack, too.

Example output:

[ajeetdsouza]

This is what I'm seeing (WSL2 / Ubuntu / Windows 11 / Windows Terminal Preview):

On the other hand, if I echo -ne "\033]11;rgb:53/18/6f\007", I get:

Notice how the first example doesn't get the borders exactly right, but the second one does.

[meowgorithm]

Aha, I see what you're saying now. We all think this is a great idea will totally implement it (in fact, @muesli is already implementing upstream). We'll keep this issue updated with progress.

Thanks for the feedback and clarification!

[ajeetdsouza]

Looking forward to it. Thanks for the quick reply!

[muesli]

Merged in termenv!

[ajeetdsouza]

Awesome! Shall I close this issue, or do you plan to expose that function directly via Bubbletea?

[meowgorithm]

Let’s leave this open for now. We’ll integrate it into Bubble Tea in a manner in which it will automatically cleanup on shutdown.