Suggestion: Enable default theme based on elevation status

[cessna048]

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.

[DHowett]

Thanks for the request! We're tracking this with dup #1939.

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[zadjii-msft]

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]

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 when ssh'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.

[zadjii-msft]

Promoting this as the theme-specific version, while #3246 is the scheme-specific one.