How to change terminal background color when opening a new tab?

Question

I wanted to change color when logging in to a remote server using ssh.

The problem is resolved by this issue.

How to automatically change the color scheme of the Apple terminal window when I ssh on a specific server

But the solution above has a little problem.

• Connect to a remote server via ssh. (Background color changed)
• Open a new terminal tab.
• This tab background is still changing.

So, I want to "reset" the background color when opening a new terminal tab. How can i do this?

Answer 1

By default, the terminal creates new tabs with the same settings as the current tab. You can change it to always use your default profile for new tabs in Preferences> Launch by changing New Tabs from: to Default Settings .

Note that this is a built-in way to automatically set the background color for certain commands instead of using the script from this other answer:

You can set the name of the settings profile to the name of the command, and Terminal will select this profile when creating a new terminal using Shell> New command ... or Shell> New remote Connection ....

For example, duplicate your default profile, name it "ssh" and set its background color to red. Then use the New command ... to run ssh host.example.com .

It also matches the arguments, so you can choose, for example, different settings for different remote hosts. You can have one with the name "ssh host.example.com" with a blue background, and another with the name "ssh" with a red background to handle any ssh commands that do not match other profiles.