Custom (background-)color for different SSH session

[dreh23]

I would like to see a Feature where you can change background colors dynamically for different SSH sessions.
This would give me visual feedback to which server I'm connected. The colors could be coded in the configuration file per host.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

You can already use profiles and layouts to configure multi-coloured pre-sets. Dynamically flipping an individual window as you ssh around would be very tricky. The locally running terminator has no real understanding of what machine you have just ssh'd too. You would either have to start parsing lines in the console to look for prompt patterns containing a hostname, or parse the process tree looking for the ssh command, then parse the arguments to find the target host. Of course that breaks down if you then ssh from that host to another host, because you will not be able to parse the first ssh targets process list.

[Francisco R. Santos (frsantos)]

I use ROXTerm (http://roxterm.sourceforge.net/) to do this. This terminal has a D-Bus interface (http://roxterm.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=guide&lang=en#AdvancedDbusUsage) that allows you to dynamically change settings like the profile, color schemes, etc. Sadly, ROXTerm can't arrange terminals in grids as Terminator.