Re: checking for light or dark background

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 at 03:05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > screen was running on rxvt-unicode.
>
> So you are saying rxvt-set-background-mode doesn't work for you?

Why would rxvt-set-background-mode even run, if the immediate terminal
is ‘screen’? And term/screen delegates its initialization to
term/xterm, which detects background mode by sending OSC 1 1 ; ? ST
(under some conditions). Screen does not seem to support this sequence
[1].

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Control-Sequences.html