This one time, at band camp, Robert Ian Smit said: > I know what I don't want to do, but don't know what other options I > have. > > I regularly log in to four or five different systems. An oops on a > couple of those systems would ill-serve me and a couple of other > people. > > How can I change the appearance of a session to a host, using host > based configuration? > > I don't want to create shortcuts on my desktop that start a > terminal-with-fancy-colours to really.important.host. > > What can I do, apart from looking at the prompt, to change the way a > session looks? Pointers are fine. I don't know where to start. Shell, > getty, system, ssh, can of paint? > > Colours would be great, having a background image on the terminal (if > terminal support is available, otherwise ignore) would be heaven. Any > other obvious visual clues available? > > Bob Depending on what terminal you're using, there's a couple of different methods. I think the KDE term supports profiles, and so does the new GNOME-terminal (2.0.x, currently in unstable). The idea being you can set up a profile for really.important.host that has colors and background associated with it, and can (I think) initiate an ssh session when opened. If you don't want that, I think Eterm supports reading different conffiles (or more, properly, themes, with the -t option), and you can set up a couple of configurations depending on which host you're sshing into. Not sure about xterm, though - it keeps mangling my keymaps, so I've just been using (E | Gnome)terms for awhile. HTH, Steve -- I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx
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