New terminator window on remote server for Ubuntu users

Nipuna Prashan
Aug 22, 2017 · 2 min read

In terminator you can setup different windows with different colors when you ssh to remote servers. Sometimes when you are in a terminal you cannot identity which server you are in. So this is a guide to create different profile for different servers.

Step 1 : Design a color scheme to your remote server

go to the link: http://ciembor.github.io/4bit/ and change color scheme as you prefer. Then select get scheme and download terminator config.

This will redirect you to a new page and that page guides you how to change the profile. Just copy the content and save to a text file

Step 2: Edit terminator config file

go to path “~/.config/terminator/config”.
Then add Following under profile

[[remoteServer]]
<Paste previously copied>
use_custom_command = True
custom_command = ssh
user@remotehost

Then save configuration file. Example is shown below

Step 3: Access Remote Server

terminator -p remotehost

This will start a new terminal with new profile

Cheers :-)

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