<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Tired of all your terminals having the same color scheme? I wrote program that fixes that. <br></div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">#!/usr/bin/python<br>import random<br>import os<br>available_colors = ["magenta","yellow", "white", "green", "cyan", "orange","red"]<br>fontsize = 22<br>font = "terminus"<br>color = random.choice(available_colors)<br>font = "-*-" + font + "-*-*-*-*-" + str(fontsize) + "-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"<br>command = 'xterm -font \"' + font + '\" -bg black' + ' -fg ' + color<br>os.system(command)<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif;">save that as /usr/bin/rcxterm and make it executable. Now set terminal="rcxterm" in xmonad.hs. Now, every time you open an XTerm, it gets assigned a random foreground color from the list. Here's a screenshot: <a href="http://i43.tinypic.com/334us1e.png">http://i43.tinypic.com/334us1e.png</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_31_1369591914030_38" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">You may have to change font = "terminus" to a font name you have on your system. The xfontsel program can find one for you. Also, I'm pretty sure there's a way to write this script in Haskell, but I only know Python. <br></div><div
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