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Suggestion: Enable default theme based on elevation status #8311
Description
This would allow you to have a different default scheme when you are running WT as admin that when running it normally so you could visually distinguish elevated terminals. My Powershell profile sets the background to red for elevated instances but in WT the Powershell background color scrolls away or goes away completely if I use the cls command. I can set the color scheme or theme manually after opening WT but it would be nice for WT to do this automatically.
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DHowett commentedon Nov 18, 2020
Thanks for the request! We're tracking this with dup #1939.
Spec for Elevation QOL improvements (#8455)
zadjii-msft commentedon Jan 27, 2022
I'm gonna re-open this and stick it on the backlog, because the shield is almost certainly not what folks really wanted here.
zadjii-msft commentedon May 2, 2022
Note to self:
gnome's new terminal, Console, does something like this - they auto-change the titlebar to be red when in
sudo, and purple whenssh'd.The ssh scenario is a GREAT example for another state to compound the problem space here (focused? x elevated? x ssh?) is now 8 states, not just 4.
[-]Suggestion: Enable default color scheme or theme based on elevation status[/-][+]Suggestion: Enable default theme based on elevation status[/+]zadjii-msft commentedon Jan 3, 2023
Promoting this as the theme-specific version, while #3246 is the scheme-specific one.