title: How to set terminal background color on linux terminal without using ncurses?
body: <p>I've wrote a simple console program in C which uses ANSI escape codes to color its text.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to temporarily set the background of the whole terminal to black and the default font color to light gray? Can this be reverted after the program ends?</p>
  
  <p>I'd prefer to avoid using ncurses.</p>