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binaryage / totalterminal

Terminal.app plugin for quick access to terminal window (Quake-style)
http://totalterminal.binaryage.com
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Feature Request: New background color for new tabs #49

Closed gposton closed 12 years ago

gposton commented 12 years ago

I used to use Yaquake for Ubuntu, which had a feature I really liked. It had an option to enable...

'When you open a new tab the background would be a different color.' If I remember correctly, you could choose from a pastel color palette, greyscale palette, etc, but the colors aren't really the important part...

When working in multiple terminals all day, I'll occasionally type the a command in the wrong window. We've all had that 'OH SH*T!!!' moment, but having the different background colors helps me quickly visually associate a tab with a server.

It would be great if the TotalTerminal remembered colors for particular servers (or if I could manually set them) and used the same color every time I log in to that server, but it would be valuable even if it didn't and just spun up a random new color for each new tab.

Thoughts?

darwin commented 12 years ago

If you want this functionality you can write some applescript which will open multiple tabs, set background colors and spawn some commands there.

I had such a script once and it worked pretty well. In Ruby: https://github.com/darwin/drydrop/blob/master/rakefile#L192-221