Is it possible to provide different Xresources colors to different terminal apps

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When using a terminal that supports more than 16 colors (such as urxvt), it it possible to provide different colors to different applications running in the same terminal after another? For example, my vim theme looks best when background and color0 are set to the same value, while htop looks best when they are different.

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xterm has this feature:

   +dc     This option enables the escape sequence to change dynamic
           colors.  The option sets the dynamicColors option to “true”.

Check for more info: https://github.com/sos4nt/dynamic-colors

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Change colors in console/virtual terminal

TTY framebuffer console has no way to have more than 8-16 colors without kernel hacking, see this quote: "Although the Linux frame-buffer supports 256 (or more) colors, the Linux console driver does not; therefore, console applications are still limited to 16 colors on the Linux console, frame-buffer or not."

So you can have no more than 16 or 8 colors. There is tutorial how to change colors for framebuffer terminal (aka ctrl+alt+1) using same commands as you described in ~/.bashrc: colors in TTY tutorial

Set urxvt to work with 256 colors

Yes, finally found my mistake. It seems like you need to install the package rxvt-unicode-256color to get 256 color support.

sudo apt-get install rxvt-unicode-256color

is the answer to my problems.

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Set urxvt to work with 256 colors

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