Created
June 25, 2013 08:29
-
-
Save porras/5856906 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Changing terminal color in MacOSX when SSHing
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
# Changing terminal color in MacOSX when SSHing (so you know at a glance that you're no longer in Kansas) | |
# Adapted from http://www.rngtng.com/2011/01/14/mac-os-x-terminal-visual-indication-for-your-ssh-connection/ | |
# 1. Create a theme in your terminal setting with the name "SSH" and the desired colors, background, etc. | |
# 2. Add this to your .bash_profile (or .bashrc, I always forget the difference ;)) | |
# 3. Optional but useful: in the terminal, go to Settings > Startup and set "New tabs open with" to | |
# "default settings" (otherwise, if you open a new tab from the changed one, you get a local tab with | |
# the SSH colors) | |
function tabc() { | |
NAME=$1; if [ -z "$NAME" ]; then NAME="Default"; fi # if you have trouble with this, change | |
# "Default" to the name of your default theme | |
osascript -e "tell application \"Terminal\" to set current settings of front window to settings set \"$NAME\"" | |
} | |
function colorssh() { | |
tabc SSH | |
ssh $* | |
tabc | |
} | |
alias ssh="colorssh" | |
# This would be easy to extend to check if a theme with the name of the server exists and set it, and | |
# fall back to the SSH theme. This way you can have different colors for different remote environments | |
# (per project, production, staging, etc.) |
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
I am getting the following weird error:
execution error: Terminal got an error: Can’t set settings set "SSH" to settings set "SSH".
any idea whats wrong?