Reduce brightness of unfocused panes #9945

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opened 2026-01-31 02:08:09 +00:00 by claunia · 4 comments
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Originally created by @Ennea on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

To allow users to quickly tell at a glance which pane currently has focus, in addition to the accent colored border, it would be nice to reduce the brightness of all the unfocused panes. Terminator does this as well:
Terminator reference screenshot

In Terminator, only the colors are adjusted (and not even all of them, as you can see from the background color still being the same everywhere). In Windows Terminal, considering the support of background images and all that other nifty stuff, just straight up adjusting the brightness of everything in unfocused panes might be a good idea.

Originally created by @Ennea on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020). # Description of the new feature/enhancement To allow users to quickly tell at a glance which pane currently has focus, in addition to the accent colored border, it would be nice to reduce the brightness of all the unfocused panes. Terminator does this as well: ![Terminator reference screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/rlJ6ZFG.png) In Terminator, only the colors are adjusted (and not even all of them, as you can see from the background color still being the same everywhere). In Windows Terminal, considering the support of background images and all that other nifty stuff, just straight up adjusting the brightness of everything in unfocused panes might be a good idea.
claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 02:08:09 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020):

Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #3062 for more discussion.

/dup #3062

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020): Thanks for the suggestion! This is actually already being tracked by another issue on our repo - please refer to #3062 for more discussion. /dup #3062
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@ghost commented on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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@Ennea commented on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020):

Oh snap, you're right. Apologies, I didn't find that ticket when searching.

@Ennea commented on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020): Oh snap, you're right. Apologies, I didn't find that ticket when searching.
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020):

No problems! That one's not the most discoverable 😜

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jul 31, 2020): No problems! That one's not the most discoverable 😜
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Reference: starred/terminal#9945