On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:47 PM Maarten de Vries <maar...@de-vri.es> wrote:
> On 18 March 2017 at 11:51, arnaud gaboury via arch-general < > arch-general@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 $PATH accordingly for your user. > Well, I tried this way, but without success. Here is the wrapper: ------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh if [[ "$HOST" == "hortensia" ]] ; then exec urxvt -bg "#161695" else exec urxvt -bg "#161616" fi ---------------------------------------------- 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: -------------------- bindsym $mod+Return exec --no-startup-id myUrxvt -------------------- 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. > > -- > Maarten > >