From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28387 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2005 01:48:41 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 01:48:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 88511 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2005 01:48:30 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 01:48:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 2054 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2005 01:47:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8336 Received: (qmail 2044 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2005 01:47:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 01:47:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 87238 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2005 01:46:42 -0000 Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com (HELO ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com) (24.93.47.41) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 6 Jan 2005 01:46:39 -0000 Received: from amdxp.kalama.no-ip.org (cs666888-186.austin.rr.com [66.68.88.186]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j061kX8H010734; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:46:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from [10.0.1.100] (mothership.kalama.no-ip.org [10.0.1.100]) by amdxp.kalama.no-ip.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06CA570; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:46:33 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: References: <20050104152041.GP22789@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.dk Reply-To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk From: lists Subject: Re: can zsh set background color? Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:46:38 -0600 To: Timothy Luoma X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=6.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Hits: 1.5 I'm personally content with a different colored prompt for remote machines. This is taken care of in my .zshrc file with something like this pseudo code: case ${HOST} in (host1) PS1= ;; (host2) PS1= ;; esac I don't want to take the focus of this discussion off of zsh, but if you're using OS X and Terminal, you can set up a Terminal window to have the characteristics that you like (i.e. color of background), then save it as a .term file which you launch only when you want to ssh to a particular host. You can even set it so that just by launching a particular .term file, the ssh command will be carried out for you. Details here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86134 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152410 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152408 Hope this helps. On Jan 4, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Timothy Luoma wrote: > I am using the Terminal program in Mac OS X, not X Windows. > > TjL >