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With so many SSH accounts all over the place, I've started using color-coded prompts for all my connections: http://i.imgur.com/KKQHj.png http://i.imgur.com/KK

With so many SSH accounts all over the place, I've started using color-coded prompts for all my connections: http://i.imgur.com/KKQHj.png http://i.imgur.com/KKQHj.png This way I can be sure I'm typing `halt` into the right box, because it's easier to spot the wrong color than the wrong hostname in 10pt text.

wglb 16y ago
Have you considered using 'screen' instead?
- sipefree 16y ago
  I really don't see how these are connected. You could easily have one screen window open and type a command into it absent mindedly without realizing it's not your laptop's shell.
  - tres 16y ago
    If you're not using captions w/ screen, then you're not using screen. Try adding to ~/.screenrc caption always "| %L=%-Lw%45>%{+b by}%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%-0<"
    - tres 16y ago
      oh, and to change the name to the current machine, ctrl + a shift + a then name to whatever system you're connected to.
- barrkel 16y ago
  I find a prompt better than a status line for reminding one of where one is, much like including the CWD in the prompt. I use a similar style: [alfie] ~$ [rupert] ~$ etc. for my SSH connections, but not for local shells, even though I also use screen. I also use color-coded prompts for selecting particular PATH and other environment variable setups for different branches of our corporate dev tree, to remind myself which compiler etc. I'm using.
  - tres 16y ago
    This is one of my strategies too (along with screen labels). Add to ~/.bash_profile : PS1="\[\033[0m\](\[\033[0;36m\]\u\[\033[0m\]@\[\033[0;33m\]\h\[\033[0m\])(\[\033[1;34m\]\w\[\033[0;0;0m\])"
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mdemare 16y ago
I change the background of my terminal when I ssh into another server, works great! (http://jeffmiller.github.com/2011/01/10/ssh-host-color http://jeffmiller.github.com/2011/01/10/ssh-host-color)
RK 16y ago
My lazy way to do something similar with Gnome Terminal is to make an "SSH profile" with a different background color. This helps reduce my mistakes. Usually I'll just do things like df on the wrong machine and wonder what's going on with my disk space, but I've made a few less happy errors in the past.
ohkine 16y ago
Unrelated to anything but: Your terminal colours seem a bit brighter than the standard ones in Snow Leopard. Are Terminal's colour capabilities improved in Lion, or are you using that SIMBL plug-in, or...?
- strmpnk 16y ago
  That is indeed Lion running there. See the full screen icon on the top-right and smaller buttons on the top-left. I haven't played with it yet but there is much more control over colors in Terminal.app in 10.7.

wglb 16y ago

Have you considered using 'screen' instead?

sipefree 16y ago
I really don't see how these are connected. You could easily have one screen window open and type a command into it absent mindedly without realizing it's not your laptop's shell.
- tres 16y ago
  If you're not using captions w/ screen, then you're not using screen. Try adding to ~/.screenrc caption always "| %L=%-Lw%45>%{+b by}%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%-0<"
  - tres 16y ago
    oh, and to change the name to the current machine, ctrl + a shift + a then name to whatever system you're connected to.
barrkel 16y ago
I find a prompt better than a status line for reminding one of where one is, much like including the CWD in the prompt. I use a similar style: [alfie] ~$ [rupert] ~$ etc. for my SSH connections, but not for local shells, even though I also use screen. I also use color-coded prompts for selecting particular PATH and other environment variable setups for different branches of our corporate dev tree, to remind myself which compiler etc. I'm using.
- tres 16y ago
  This is one of my strategies too (along with screen labels). Add to ~/.bash_profile : PS1="\[\033[0m\](\[\033[0;36m\]\u\[\033[0m\]@\[\033[0;33m\]\h\[\033[0m\])(\[\033[1;34m\]\w\[\033[0;0;0m\])"

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mdemare 16y ago

I change the background of my terminal when I ssh into another server, works great! (http://jeffmiller.github.com/2011/01/10/ssh-host-color http://jeffmiller.github.com/2011/01/10/ssh-host-color)

RK 16y ago

My lazy way to do something similar with Gnome Terminal is to make an "SSH profile" with a different background color. This helps reduce my mistakes. Usually I'll just do things like df on the wrong machine and wonder what's going on with my disk space, but I've made a few less happy errors in the past.

ohkine 16y ago

Unrelated to anything but: Your terminal colours seem a bit brighter than the standard ones in Snow Leopard. Are Terminal's colour capabilities improved in Lion, or are you using that SIMBL plug-in, or...?

strmpnk 16y ago
That is indeed Lion running there. See the full screen icon on the top-right and smaller buttons on the top-left. I haven't played with it yet but there is much more control over colors in Terminal.app in 10.7.