Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Deluigi Marcus
Hi This may be a little OT. I start the cygwin terminal with the cygwin.bat and I would like to change the background color of each session with a script (e.g. a random background color). I am developing some software and I have a long compilation process (8') and different colors help me to

Re: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Deluigi Marcus escribe: I am developing some software and I have a long compilation process (8') and different colors help me to distinguish for which window is logged on on which machine. Different colors on the bash prompt would help? It's what I use... Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael

RE: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread David Christensen
Deluigi Marcus wrote: ... which window is logged on on which machine. I include the hostname in my Bash prompt: 2006-11-24 08:06:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep PS1 .bash_profile export PS1='\D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} [EMAIL PROTECTED] \w\n\$ ' HTH, David -- Unsubscribe

RE: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIAID\) [E]
David Christensen wrote on Friday, November 24, 2006 11:47 AM: Deluigi Marcus wrote: ... which window is logged on on which machine. I include the hostname in my Bash prompt: 2006-11-24 08:06:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep PS1 .bash_profile export PS1='\D{%Y-%m-%d

Re: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Deluigi Marcus wrote: This may be a little OT. I start the cygwin terminal with the cygwin.bat and I would like to change the background color of each session with a script (e.g. a random background color). I am developing some software and I have a long compilation

Re: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Peshansky wrote: Alternatively, use rxvt, which, like xterm, understands special sequences to dynamically change the background color of the window, among other things). Rxvt also has the additional advantage that you can specify the background color programmatically on the command