[ayn2op]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Screens can now set custom default foreground and background colors for terminal output.
  • Configured colors are applied when the screen starts and when color settings change while it is running.
• Bug Fixes
  • Terminal default colors are restored when a configured color is cleared or the screen stops, including during suspend and resume.

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Walkthrough

The screen API adds setters for terminal default foreground and background colors. The terminfo screen stores these colors and emits set or reset sequences during updates and screen lifecycle changes.

Changes: Terminal Default Colors

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Screen color API screen.go	The Screen and internal screenImpl interfaces add foreground and background color setters.
Color output and lifecycle tscreen.go, tscreen_test.go	The terminfo screen stores the colors, emits valid colors when engaged or set while running, and resets valid colors during disengagement. Tests cover escape sequences, suspend and resume, finalization, and resetting a color during suspension.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant tScreen
  participant Terminal
  Caller->>tScreen: Set foreground or background color
  tScreen->>Terminal: Emit color or reset sequence
  tScreen->>Terminal: Restore stored valid colors on engagement
  tScreen->>Terminal: Reset valid configured colors on disengagement

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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e047e

The new color controls have no identified merge-blocking issue.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the two main API additions, SetForegroundColor and SetBackgroundColor, which match the pull request changes.
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❌ Patch coverage is 96.29630% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 92.09%. Comparing base (d3a071c) to head (e047ed2).

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Review comments at @tscreen.go:
- Line 1873: Snapshot the applied foreground and background colors under the
lock in both disengage callers, then pass those snapshots to disengageFinish and
use them to decide which terminal resets to emit. Update disengageFinish’s
signature and its callers while preserving the existing cleanup behavior.

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[gdamore]

How widely supported are these? I've been avoiding things that mess about with the palette -- arguably you can just force colors using 24-bit color and clear the screen, without changing the defaults, so that when the screen resets it goes back without having to restore the palette. (Given that, why do you want this?)

[gdamore]

@ayn2op I'd like to understand the problem that this solves for you (as opposed to setting the colors explicitly before doing screen.Clear() ? The change here affects all apps, not just the tcell app.

[ayn2op]

Why not a Style + Clear()? That covers the cell grid, but not:

• Padding/margins: the area the terminal draws around the grid uses its default background, so a themed app gets a mismatched border. Most visible in terminals with window padding, like kitty, ghostty and WezTerm.
• Child processes: with Suspend to run $EDITOR or a shell, the default colors stay with the app's theme only if they're set at the terminal level.

Affecting other apps: agreed, this is the main risk, so the PR resets both colors (OSC 110/111) on Suspend and Fini and sets them again on Resume. It only does this when the app has actually set a color, so apps that never call these methods send nothing. CodeRabbit found a race where a reset could be skipped during suspend; that's fixed and tested in e047ed2. This is the same approach tcell already takes for the cursor color, which uses OSC 12/112 (tscreen.go:663). The one gap is a crash or SIGKILL, which skips the reset, but that also leaves the alt screen, mouse mode and the cursor color behind today.

OSC 10/11/110/111 are xterm sequences. I've tested kitty, ghostty, WezTerm, and a few others. Terminals that don't support them ignore them.