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Summary of the Pull Request

This commit adds a new setting in which you can configure the active highlight color of panes as well as inactive and broadcast. This will only happen if configured otherwise uses the default as suggested by #3061

References and Relevant Issues

#3061

Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments

When modifying the settings you can now set pane key to have the following properties:

  • "activeBorderColor"
  • "inactiveBorderColor"
  • "broadcastBorderColor"
    This allows for more configuration of the windows terminal

Validation Steps Performed

Built Locally, Ran Locally and configured a profile with the following theme:

"themes": 
[
    {
        "name": "Under Construction",
        "tab": {
            "background": "#FFFF00FF",
            "iconStyle": "default",
            "showCloseButton": "always",
            "unfocusedBackground": "#88440088"
        },
        "tabRow": {
            "background": "#FF8800FF",
            "unfocusedBackground": "#202020FF"
        },
        "window": {
            "applicationTheme": "light",
            "experimental.rainbowFrame": false,
            "frame": null,
            "unfocusedFrame": null,
            "useMica": true
        },
        "pane": {
            "activeBorderColor": "#13A10E",
            "inactiveBorderColor": "#61D6D6"
        }
    }
]

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@microsoft-github-policy-service microsoft-github-policy-service bot added Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Area-Settings Issues related to settings and customizability, for console or terminal Area-Theming Anything related to the theming of elements of the window Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. labels May 27, 2025

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@Techypanda Techypanda force-pushed the pane-highlight-setting branch from 3f82c6a to 97b01e4 Compare May 27, 2025 07:09
This commit adds a new setting in which you can configure the active highlight color of panes aswell as inactive and broadcast.
@Techypanda Techypanda force-pushed the pane-highlight-setting branch from 97b01e4 to b660e34 Compare May 29, 2025 03:59
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Add a setting to manually set the Pane highlight color
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