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Re: mintty - changing colours when logging in to remote host
Gary:
> Is it possible to change the colour scheme when connecting to a remote
> system, to remind me where I am actually "running"?
Yes. There are control sequences for changing the colours, so you
could do this with the appropriate echo commands in your remote login
script. Or you could have a local script that changes colours before
connecting to the remote system. For example, to set the background
colour to dark red:
echo $'\e]12;64,0,0\a'
Alternatively, you could invoke the remote connection directly from a
shortcut and configure the colours by setting the shortcut target to
something like this:
C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -o BackgroundColour=128,0,0 /bin/ssh server
See the mintty manual for further information. The xterm documentation
at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html has the full
details of those control sequences (look for "Operating System
Controls").
Andy
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