[arch-general] URXVT background color

[arnaud gaboury]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:38 PM Christian Rebischke <
Chris.Rebischke at archlinux.org> 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.
>