Alain D D Williams wrote: > I read/write email using mutt in a mate terminal. It is black & white. If I > ssh > in from my laptop it is yellow & black (I cannot remember why I set it up like > that).
For about a decade, I color-coded the default text in my terminals to indicate where I was SSHd in. (I tended to have a dozen terminal windows open at once.) These days I color-code the bash prompt, instead. -dsr-