Chris Gehlker wrote:
> But I'm pretty ignorant on the subject. I'd welcome a pointer.

Probably less so than me. It was just an idea that sprang to mind - 
along the lines of manipulating gconf keys for the gnome-terminal 
palette. Since GNOME UI guidelines state that options must be 
instant-apply if possible, I presumed those would take effect instantly. 
Although that solution would also (probably) change colours in all other 
terminal windows, so it's not optimal.

Also, speaking of googlage, "change xterm colour" yields 
http://www.thrysoee.dk/xtermcontrol/ on the first page of results. *cough*

Probably does precisely what's needed for xterm.

David Vallner