How do I change colors on-the-fly in mintty?

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How do I change the colors in a Cygwin mintty session which is already open? Is it possible?

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Under environment-imposed time constraints, multiple terminal windows have been opened without forethought. In order to reduce the risk of typing the commands for system A into the terminal for system B, it would be nice if they were different colors. Is there some escape sequence or whatnot that can change the color scheme for a running session?

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