Terminal preference tweeks

[lvfd242]

Hello,

I use the Terminal app to connect to my company's AIX servers. I have several Terminal settings defined. Is it possible to use a default setting and tweek some attribute, say background and text color in a shell command?

Thanks,

Mike

 

[yellow]

Did you set up the default setting in the Terminal preferences?

 

[lvfd242]

Yes, I've got general settings, like screen size, font, etc. I'm interested in changing the background color and font color to differentiate production servers from test.

For instance I have aliases defined in my .bash_profile for ssh sessions to production and test environments. I typically run multiple windows and would like to know at a glance which is instance is which.

Thanks,

 

[chown33]

Applescript to set bkgd color to red:

tell app "Terminal" to set background color of first tab of front window to {65535,0,0}

Shell command to do the same thing:

osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to set background color of first tab of front window to {65535,0,0}'

I assume you can work out the quoting, and how to do shell-variable replacement or other things. I also assume you know about RGB colors, which is what {65535,0,0} represents.

 

[lvfd242]

Thanks Chown33! That was exaclty what I was looking for.

Thanks again.