Change Mac Terminal Background Color using Command


You can also go to the Mac Terminal Settings Menu and change the Color Scheme, but if you want to change the background of the Terminal using Command on the Shell you are on, you can make use of the osascript script.

Example:
macOS % osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to set background color of window 1 to {10000,0,0,0}'
Change Terminal Background Color using Command

This is not an AI-generated article but is demonstrated by a human on an M1 Mac running macOS Sonoma 14.0.

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