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in thread change/detect term screen background color

okay, it works if I add this after the color change: 

system("clear");

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Re^4: change/detect term screen background color
by Allasso (Monk) on Feb 19, 2011 at 20:20 UTC

    here is an example that works:

    change screen color for a script, then change it back when script exits:

    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

# change bgcolor and text
system("echo -e '\e[44m'");
system("clear");
print "interactive script with blue background...\n\n";
print "press return to exit script:\n\n";

<STDIN>;

# revert to original color
system("echo -e '\e[0m'");
system("clear");

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    Anyway, thanks for getting my brain going.
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