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

step 1:

custom your iterm profile, e.g. dark, light

step 2:

add code before to your shell profile, e.g .bashrc or .zshrc

# Change iterm2 profile. Usage it2prof ProfileName (case sensitive)
it2prof() { echo -e "\033]50;SetProfile=$1\a" }

step 3:

make sense your profile

exec $SHELL -l

step 4:

toggle your iterm theme profile

it2prof dark
it2prof light