On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 10:51:16AM +0000, arnaud gaboury via arch-general wrote: > I run many urxvt windows on my screen. Some are for the host system and > some are for my container (managed by systemd-nspawn). > I am looking for a way to change color background according to hostname in > order to quickly see which terminal I am on. > My idea was to test $HOST variable in my ~/.xinitrc and give a specific > .Xressource accordingly, but it doesn't work as .xinitrc is obviously not > invoked when I fire a new terminal window. Hi, I think you don't want to use the terminal background for this. The better solution would be a custom prompt for your containers (I use powerlevel9k with zsh for this [1]). The problem here is that if you want to do this over the terminal background you would need custom wrappers that will open a new terminal for you + your command to spawn into the container. I can imagine that this workflow will annoy in future. just my two cents, chris [1] https://paste.archlinux.de/xRYkm/ thats my current workflow. This prompt detects virtualization and SSH sessions.
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