On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:38 PM Christian Rebischke < Chris.Rebischke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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]). > I already have different prompts in my .zshinit, but it is not enough to quickly distinguish which host term I am on. The urxvt wrapper is a good idea. > > 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. >
