Hi, A couple of days a made a trivial hack that made me very happy, so I want to share the trick here. The trick is to start rxvt-unicode with -bg \\#`randcolor.py` -fg \\#EEEEEE where randcolor is a simple python script that returns a random hex color with rgb random in range(0..100) (to be dark enough for white font): #!/usr/bin/env python from random import * rs=["%X"%(int(uniform(0,100))) for x in range(3)] s='' for x in rs: while len(x)<2: x="0"+x s+=x print s The outcome is that every term you start has slightly different shade of background. This not only makes your screen much more colourful and nice, but also helps with 0 or 1 pixel borders as terminals now clearly separate into areas on the screen of different colors so it is actually very useful! Best, anže phone: +1 (510) 495 2488, mobile: +1 (510) 289 9395, fax: +1 (510) 486 7149 -- "Speaking as a Jew on Christmas, I would be less shocked if Santa Claus showed up to my house than if Bernie Madoff pulled off this fraud alone." [Ron Geffner]