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

for zsh users

lets say you have 2 profiles, one named mac (for your primary machine) and one for linux (your remote machine)

when entering the session, we need to tell zsh to load our profile

1. connect to remote linux
2. in ~/.zshrc add echo -e "\033]50;SetProfile=linux\a"
3. source your files for immediate effect: source ~/.zshrc
4. your new theme should be visible within the iterm session.

when exiting the session, we need to tell zsh to switch back to our original profile

1. connect to remote linux
2. in linux ~/.zlogout add the following

if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then
  echo -e "\033]50;SetProfile=mac\a"
  clear
fi

now you can swap profiles with ease <3.

if you are using bash, i believe the steps are similar but you would instead modify ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_logout

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