OSC 16 Tektronix Background Color

OSC 16 ; Pt ST sets the color of the background of xterm’s Tektronix 4014 window, and OSC 16 ; ? ST asks what it is. OSC 116 puts it back as it started. It is one of xterm’s dynamic colors, and works as OSC 10 explains: Pt is any color X11 can parse, and a further ; in the same sequence moves on to color 17.

The Tektronix colors belong to xterm’s second window, which emulates a Tektronix 4014 graphics terminal and is opened from a menu or with CSI ? 38 h. They can be set and asked for whether or not that window is showing.

A default xterm starts it as the text background (charproc.c), so in the terminal the cases run in, set up as a default xterm, it is reported as rgb:ffff/ffff/ffff.

libghostty-vt has no such color, and ignores OSC 16 and OSC 116, so the cases that ask are known differences.

Validation

OSC16-1: Ask for it

\e]16;?\a

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reply \e]16;rgb:ffff/ffff/ffff\a

OSC16-2: Change it

\e]16;#0080ff\a
\e]16;?\a

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reply \e]16;rgb:0000/8080/ffff\a