Usually I have a lot of Konsoles open when I work. One window for each host I am connected to, and several tabs within that window.

I would like to be able to customize each window. Right now I can only choose from a number of predefined schemes. The problem is that they are not all accetable. Green on Black is OK, but I have not been able to create Amber on Black which would be acceptable as well. Pink on Yellow or something like that is not what I need.

Is there a way to completely customize the foreground and background of a terminal screen? Either by Konsole settings, or running a script whenever I open a terminal. Manually chosing a script is acceptable.

Why I want to do this? To distinguish between one machine and the other when I am at work. It happened once to me that I did a "shutdown -h now" on a machine at home, but the terminal belonged to a server 200 km away. It must be obvious on what machine I am, even at 2 am

If the terminal gets a color schema dependent on the machine I log in, even better.

Any ideas?

jlinkels

Try this (in a konsole!):
konsole --schema LightPaper.schema &
konsole --schema BlackOnWhite.schema &

More info here: http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebas...e-options.html

So then you could write some little bash scripts to open konsoles with different backgrounds & titlebars and whatnot, and have them connect to your different computers.
I might even try it myself!

Edit If you don't like the supplied schemata you can find them in /usr/share/apps/konsole and make your own, or even (I expect) customise a konsole with the GUI and then save it as a new schema.
You may also be able to to some fancy trickery by using dcop
Now I am fresh out of ideas!

You can indeed create and edit schemas entirely within Konsole's GUI.

Got it.

I did not understand the Konsole GUI. Now I see that every attribute (foreground color, background color) can be custom defined. Now I grabbed the concept.

Problem solved
Thanks

jlinkels