Hi, I just added support for coloring arbitrary parts of a line to dzen. Anyone who wants to give it a first try should grab the svn version: svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen HEADS UP, the syntax has changed: echo 'Default colors ^fg(blue)I'm blue ^bg(green)^fg(#ffffff)and I'm white on green' | dzen2 -p As you see, you can place the ^fg(color) and ^bg(color) commands anywhere into the text in any combination. The set colors will be used until you define a new one on a per line basis (similar to terminal escape seqs.) Both commands accept either symbolic color names or #rrggbb hex-values. If you need to display '^' characters just double them '^^' in order to escape the special meaning. The code is not perfect and I'll be happy to see some testing and possible bug reports before release. There is one known problem in menu mode, i.e. colored text will be printed as is. I'll look into solving this issue in the next couple of days. Bye, Rob. P.S.: With this parsing method it is rather easily possible to support icons in dzen. So this will be a priority TODO as soon as the parser is stable and I found a suitable icon format.