OSC 104 / 105 / 110-119 — Color Reset

Sequence	OSC <code> [; Ps]* ST
Otty support	✓ 104 / 110 / 111 / 112 · ✓ 105 / 117 / 119 · 113 / 114 / 115 / 116 / 118 parsed but no visible effect (matches the unset-by-design slots in OSC 10-19)

Description

Reset companions for the OSC 4 palette set and the OSC 5 / 10-19 named-color set sequences. The reset brings the slot back to the configured default (the terminal's startup palette / theme) — not to whatever the program saved earlier. For "restore exactly the prior runtime value", use XTPOPCOLORS instead.

Code	Resets
104	Palette color N (or all 256 when no parameter)
105	"Special" colors (OSC 5 slots — bold / underline / blink / reverse / italic)
110	Foreground (OSC 10)
111	Background (OSC 11)
112	Cursor color (OSC 12)
113	Mouse pointer fg (OSC 13)
114	Mouse pointer bg (OSC 14)
115	Tektronix fg (OSC 15)
116	Tektronix cursor (OSC 16)
117	Highlight (selection) bg (OSC 17)
118	Tektronix bg (OSC 18)
119	Highlight (selection) fg (OSC 19)

OSC 104 — Palette reset

# Reset palette index 1 (red) to config default
printf '\e]104;1\e\\'

# Reset everything 0–255 at once (no parameter)
printf '\e]104\e\\'

# Reset multiple indices in one shot
printf '\e]104;1;3;5\e\\'

OSC 105 — Reset special colors

# Reset all five OSC 5 special slots
printf '\e]105\e\\'

# Reset just the underline-color special (slot 1)
printf '\e]105;1\e\\'

OSC 110-119 — Named reset

Single-slot, no parameters:

printf '\e]110\e\\'     # OSC 110 — reset fg
printf '\e]111\e\\'     # OSC 111 — reset bg
printf '\e]112\e\\'     # OSC 112 — reset cursor
printf '\e]117\e\\'     # OSC 117 — reset selection bg
printf '\e]119\e\\'     # OSC 119 — reset selection fg

Difference from XTPOPCOLORS

Mechanism	Where it restores to	Stack depth
OSC 104 / 110-119	Configured default	1 (no history)
CSI #Q (XTPOPCOLORS)	The runtime value at the matching #P push	up to 10

In short: 104/110-119 forget all runtime changes; XTPOPCOLORS forgets only the most recent layer. Programs that want to leave a user's previous-runtime tweaks alone (Otty themes set OSC 4 before launch, for instance) should prefer XTPUSH/POP.

Related

• OSC 10/11/12/17/19 — set companions.
• OSC 4 — set palette index.
• CSI #P/Q/R — XTPUSHCOLORS