Dim terminal when app terminates

[elad-eyal-ns]

I have a profile which is used for SSH. When the connection is lost, I get a message saying the process has terminated and I am to press ENTER to restart. It's not always easy to spot this message, since it can appear at the top or middle of the screen (wherever the cursor happened to be). I propose that at this time (optionally) dim the entire window. This way it will be easier to notice the app termination and hit ENTER before continuing.

[DHowett]

Thanks for the request! For what it's worth... we have another visual indicator that the connection has been broken:

We're not likely to prioritize the "appearance matrix" work required to support the combinations of {terminated/running, admin/non-admin, focused/unfocused} required to make this possible, so we're committing it to the distant distant backlog for now.

[zadjii-msft]

and my stupid idea from triage:

• connection dead? ---> deadConnectionAppearance
• alive?
  • unfocused? ---> unfocusedAppearance
  • focused?
    • admin? ---> adminAppearance
    • standard ---> defaultAppearance

[elad-eyal]

Thanks for the request! For what it's worth... we have another visual indicator that the connection has been broken:

what is "another visual indicator" ? the two lines of text? when using ssh and tmux they tend to appear anywhere on screen, hiding between whatever text happens to be on screen. it is not as clear as in the demo image you placed.

[DHowett]

Good point.

It’s the (x) which appears to the left of the title. It’s visible in the tab.