iTerm 2 profiles

Question

I have recently switched over to iTerm2 and love it. I am wondering though if there is a way to use profiles to correspond to what environment/specific machine you are on.

Answer 1

iTerm2 supports a custom escape code that changes the profile on the fly. Put it in your .bashrc or .bash_profile.

]50;SetProfile=X^G

where X is the profile. For instance, to change the profile to one called "Foo", us this shell script:

#!/bin/bash
echo -e "\033]50;SetProfile=Foo\a"

To change it back when you log out, put code to change the profile back to default in ~/.bash_logout.