Workaround for using terminal profiles

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On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:44:54 +1100 Andrew Spiers wrote:

> I've been trying to figure out a way to use different font colors
> for different terminal windows. The reason for this is to have a
> visual reminder of which machine I am connected to.

I don't think this is what you are asking for, but something like
this may work for you.  I put a section like this for each
computer in my .bashrc, which is the same on all machines:

if [ `hostname` = "SomeOtherComputer" ]  ; then
    PS1="\[\033[32m\]\u at SomeOtherComputer \w \$ \[\033[0m\]"     # no title for now
fi

Change SomeOtherComputer to the hostname of your other machine.  :)

You can also just enter 
	PS1="\[\033[32m\]\u at SomeOtherComputer \w \$ \[\033[0m\]"
at the command line to test it and change colors, etc, without
editing and logging in and out.

Sorry if that is all stuff you already know...