Don't think you can tint the window, but you change the color of the
caption bar. Create a shell script (e.g. chcap.sh) like this and put it
somewhere in your PATH:
#!/bin/bash
# this is the caption I like to use. the %{kr} and %{kc}
# define the colors. See man screen for more details.
caption[0]
Hello list,
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 08:50:51PM -0400, Roberta Hopkins wrote:
> My question is: how may
> I convince screen to give me a slightly differently colored background
> for each screen instance? I would like to know at a glance whether I
> am writing on the Front or the Back of my paper.