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

In my case, I need to combine Yohaï Berreby's answer with my hosts' setting to implement this feature.

5. In Automatic Profile Switching, click '+' and add the hostname of your local machine. The hostname is the one you get when running echo $HOST on the target machine. It is not always the one you see in your prompt.

My staging server doesn't set $HOST and host name is :

[devel@alveo-staging ~]$ hostname
alveo-staging

But I can't set the rule with hostname as alveo-staging. Because in fact alveo-staging is just an alias of the real hostname (alveo-staging.xxx), which can be set in /etc/hosts.

So the quick solution to this is to use * wildcards, to set the rule as *staging*.

Then it works.