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Can I have my terminal background change based on hostname?
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Mar 15, 202619781 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'd like to have my terminal background color change based on hostname. My reasoning for this is mainly to have and extra way to remind myself what server I am on, so I don't do something stupid. Is there someway I can have it use the standard aubergine background if I am on my local machine, then …
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You can use ssh/config's localcommand option to run a command whenever an alias is used. I use This depends on xtermcontrol and your term being xterm. Presumably there are other apps for other terms. The only problem with this approach is that it ha…
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