How to determine a terminal’s background color?

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There’s an xterm control sequence for this:

\e]11;?\a

(\e and \a are the ESC and BEL characters, respectively.)

Xterm-compatible terminals should reply with the same sequence, with the question mark replaced by an X11 color name, e.g. rgb:0000/0000/0000 for black.

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