Set tab color in command line #11196

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opened 2026-01-31 02:41:16 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @alisd23 on GitHub (Oct 28, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

When opening tabs/panes with the wt command, It would be great to be able to set the color of a tab, in a similar way as we can currently set the title with wt --title something.

I use the wt to command to open my terminal "workspace", and I use colours to easily distinguish the different tabs, so allowing this to be set by command line instead of manually each time the tabs are opened would be even nicer.

This could be as simple as something like the following, allow a hex value to be set:

wt --color "#111111" ; new-tab --color "#FF0000"
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Reference: starred/terminal#11196