[arch-general] URXVT background color

[arnaud gaboury]

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:47 PM Maarten de Vries <maarten at de-vri.es> wrote:

> On 18 March 2017 at 11:51, arnaud gaboury via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> 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.
>
> How can I manage what I am looking for (if I can)?
> Thank you for hints.
>
>
> ​You could make a wrapper script that calls `exec urxvt -bg ....` with a
> color​
>
> ​based on the hostname.​ I'd recommend a wrapper script and not an alias
> since the wrapper script will work everywhere, not just in your shell. Just
> put the script somewhere that is accessible in the host system and the
> container and set $PATH accordingly for your user.
>

Well, I tried this way, but without success. Here is the wrapper:
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#!/bin/sh

 if [[ "$HOST" == "hortensia" ]] ; then
    exec urxvt -bg "#161695"
else
    exec urxvt -bg "#161616"
fi
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I placed this scrpt, calld myUrxvt, in ~/bin (it is in my path).

As I use i3, i modify this line to start my terminal:
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bindsym $mod+Return exec --no-startup-id myUrxvt
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Starting a new terminal in host, hortensia, works, but not for the
container. After a close look, in fact terminal in container is xterm and
start by console-getty.service in the container.
So the solution is something less obvious.
I tried to play with the condition $TERM == xterm , but this does not work
too.




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> ​ Maarten​
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