microsoft/Terminal

Add support for a separate color / image for padding area background

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#1,726 opened on Jun 30, 2019

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Description

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

I'd like to be able to specify a separate background color, image, etc. for the area in the margin (padding) in the terminal window.

This uses a background image and padding value, but fails when resized to anything but the golden value of both.

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In straight-up XAML, I'd do this by having a window-wide background color/image, and then specifying something different for the area inside the padding.

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Examine how the terminal currently renders the padding area in XAML and design a method to apply a separate background to it.
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cpp
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3
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1-2 days
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