How to get current text hiliteColor in Linux?

[Richard Gaskin]

Currently the LiveCode engine uses the Windows hiliteColor when 
selecting text, ignoring whatever highlight color may be in use by the 
current theme.

Is there a shell query I can run to determine the current text highlight 
color?

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