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How I can change color of tab bar in ConEmu on Windows? I tried find in settings but never found appropriate option.

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ConEmu does not have such option because that is standard Windows control. Just change your Windows settings (if you can).

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    You right - this color depends on system global Button Background, what can be checked when applying High Contrast theme on Windows. To much sacrifice to get dark tabs :)
    – pbaranski
    Jan 16, 2015 at 9:22
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    Do you confirm this is still the case? I'd like to make inactive tabs darker, because I can't easily see the active tab. My Windows colors are default AFAIK. Could you suggest a solution? Jun 10, 2015 at 23:59
  • @Maximus Enabling different kinds of tabs might be an option. E.g. at the end of functionx.com/vccli/controls/tabcontrol.htm are two good examples of appearance that distinguishes the tabs enough: functionx.com/msdotnet/forms/tabappear1.gif and functionx.com/msdotnet/forms/tabappear2.gif. If given an option in ConEmu to choose between these, this could serve the same purpose - distinguishing tabs - in my opinion. Oct 2, 2015 at 15:25
  • @steady Your examples are related to .Net. ConEmu is "WinApi" application and does not depend on any of external libraries. Anyway, proposed style looks ugly nowadays...
    – Maximus
    Oct 2, 2015 at 18:09
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You can make the active tab more visually distinct by dynamically modifying its title.

Under Settings > General > Tab bar, you can set the Console setting to something like

%m< m%M(M%c%m >m%M)M %s

The %m...m block only appears on the active tab, while %M...M only appears on inactive tabs, giving you < 1 > Tab name on the active tab versus (2) Tab name on inactive tabs. You can customize this styling however you want.

Another option is to prepend the unicode character of your choice before the active terminal, like so:

%m💩m (%c) %s

Or

%m🚀m (%c) %s
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    Nice solution, I've just added %m■m to add a black square and make it more obvious which tab is the currently active one.
    – laurent
    Apr 20, 2017 at 14:32
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Following on from Zags' suggestion, I came up with:

%m◀m %s %f%m ▶m

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