Terminator

Is it possible to make automatic backround setting?

Asked by Jobson

I have a lot of windows and terminators on my desktops.
Different servers and the same login everywhere. So sometimes i miss the window and work with another server.
Can we use some settings that can change window's backround and titlebar's colour? (+font style, size, etc)

for example regex -
^jobson@localhost$==green,red
^.*@server.local$==grey,blue
^.*@corporate.local$==blinking-red,white

It would be extremely useful.

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Jobson (mrjobson-gmail) said : 		#1

Maybe some translucent OSD can be useful when changing terminator window.
Try not to miss a window when you are monitoring 20-30 servers at once.
The sub window title is too small to notice. Maybe we can place translucent auto-generated backround image with this caption?

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Chris Jones (cmsj) said : 		#2

hmm, there are some interesting issues here. The "Big Board" use case, while not directly relevant to me, is very interesting.
I'm not sure regexps are a good idea, and they would certainly make things complicated, but we could potentially make the titlebar significantly more obvious.
Perhaps you could file a wishlist bug about wanting a more obvious way to identify the focussed terminal?

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Tom Edwards (ubuntu-t0m) said : 		#3

Hi I'm considering creating a patch (well I'm halfway there I just have to put the configuration into the preferences) that will change the background colour of a terminal based upon whether the titlebar text matches a regexp. This way you can set it to turn the screen light blue if you log into a particular server and it will turn back to the default when you log out. I am using lots of different terminals on lots of different servers so would find this quite useful. I'm not sure this is a solution to this question in particular, but I was wondering if this would be a welcome addition to Terminator if I could come up with the patch?

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