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If You like randoms colors on the Mac Terminal, here a way to get it. The script isself is from the Internet, courtesy to Daniel Jalkut.
I have placed my script in ~/Dropbox/Scripts/osx/RandomColorTerminal.scpt
The are a few ways to get a new Teminal color for each started Terminal:
A. in ~/.profile the script can be called:
osascript ~/Dropbox/Scripts/osx/RandomColorTerminal.scpt
B. Running it everytime a Terminal is launched via the Terminal preferences (use osascript to launch the script file) :
This gives a new color in the Terminal every time
Terminal.app
-- © Copyright 2006, Red Sweater Software. All Rights Reserved. -- Permission to copy granted for personal use only. All copies of this script -- must retain this copyright information and all lines of comments below, up to -- and including the line indicating "End of Red Sweater Comments". -- -- Any commercial distribution of this code must be licensed from the Copyright -- owner, Red Sweater Software. -- -- This script alters the color of the frontmost Terminal window to be something random. -- -- End of Red Sweater Comments -- This nasty constant might as well be a global global kColorValueMaximum set kColorValueMaximum to 65535 -- Choose a random color for the background set randomRed to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set randomGreen to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set randomBlue to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set myBackgroundColor to {randomRed, randomGreen, randomBlue} -- Select appropriate text colors based on that background set {myTextColor, myBoldColor} to my ContrastingTextColors(myBackgroundColor) -- Now inflict them on the frontmost window tell application "Terminal" set targetWindow to window 1 set background color of targetWindow to myBackgroundColor set cursor color of targetWindow to myTextColor set normal text color of targetWindow to myTextColor set bold text color of targetWindow to myBoldColor end tell on ContrastingTextColors(myColor) set whiteColor to {kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum} set lightGreyColor to {40000, 40000, 40000, kColorValueMaximum} set blackColor to {0, 0, 0, kColorValueMaximum} set darkGreyColor to {20000, 20000, 20000, kColorValueMaximum} -- From http://www.wilsonmar.com/1colors.htm set myRed to (item 1 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set myGreen to (item 2 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set myBlue to (item 3 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set magicY to (0.3 * myRed) + (0.59 * myGreen) + (0.11 * myBlue) if (magicY < 0.5) then return {whiteColor, lightGreyColor} else return {blackColor, darkGreyColor} end if end ContrastingTextColors
ITerm2.app
Full Colors:
-- This nasty constant might as well be a global global kColorValueMaximum set kColorValueMaximum to 65535 -- Choose a random color for the background set randomRed to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set randomGreen to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set randomBlue to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set myBackgroundColor to {randomRed, randomGreen, randomBlue} -- Select appropriate text colors based on that background set {myTextColor, myBoldColor} to my ContrastingTextColors(myBackgroundColor) -- Now inflict them on the frontmost window tell application "iTerm" set targetWindow to window 1 set background color of current session of current terminal to myBackgroundColor set foreground color of current session of current terminal to myTextColor end tell on ContrastingTextColors(myColor) set whiteColor to {kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum} set lightGreyColor to {40000, 40000, 40000, kColorValueMaximum} set blackColor to {0, 0, 0, kColorValueMaximum} set darkGreyColor to {20000, 20000, 20000, kColorValueMaximum} -- From http://www.wilsonmar.com/1colors.htm set myRed to (item 1 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set myGreen to (item 2 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set myBlue to (item 3 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set magicY to (0.3 * myRed) + (0.59 * myGreen) + (0.11 * myBlue) if (magicY < 0.5) then return {"white", lightGreyColor} else return {"black", darkGreyColor} end if end ContrastingTextColors
Dark colors:
-- This nasty constant might as well be a global global kColorValueMaximum -- set kColorValueMaximum to 65535 set kColorValueMaximum to 10000 -- Choose a random color for the background set randomRed to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set randomGreen to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set randomBlue to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set myBackgroundColor to {randomRed, randomGreen, randomBlue} -- Select appropriate text colors based on that background set {myTextColor, myBoldColor} to my ContrastingTextColors(myBackgroundColor) -- Now inflict them on the frontmost window tell application "iTerm" set targetWindow to window 1 set background color of current session of current terminal to myBackgroundColor set foreground color of current session of current terminal to myTextColor end tell on ContrastingTextColors(myColor) set whiteColor to {kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum} set lightGreyColor to {40000, 40000, 40000, kColorValueMaximum} set blackColor to {0, 0, 0, kColorValueMaximum} set darkGreyColor to {20000, 20000, 20000, kColorValueMaximum} -- From http://www.wilsonmar.com/1colors.htm set myRed to (item 1 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set myGreen to (item 2 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set myBlue to (item 3 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set magicY to (0.3 * myRed) + (0.59 * myGreen) + (0.11 * myBlue) --if (magicY < 0.5) then return {"white", lightGreyColor} --else -- return {"black", darkGreyColor} --end if end ContrastingTextColors
ITerm2.app (Version 2.9 and onwards)
Ref: https://iterm2.com/applescript.html
-- This nasty constant might as well be a global global kColorValueMaximum set kColorValueMaximum to 65535 -- Choose a random color for the background set randomRed to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set randomGreen to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set randomBlue to (random number) * kColorValueMaximum set myBackgroundColor to {randomRed, randomGreen, randomBlue} -- Select appropriate text colors based on that background set {myTextColor, myBoldColor} to my ContrastingTextColors(myBackgroundColor) -- Now inflict them on the frontmost window tell application "iTerm" tell current session of first window set background color to myBackgroundColor set foreground color to myTextColor end tell end tell on ContrastingTextColors(myColor) set whiteColor to {kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum, kColorValueMaximum} set lightGreyColor to {40000, 40000, 40000, kColorValueMaximum} set blackColor to {0, 0, 0, kColorValueMaximum} set darkGreyColor to {20000, 20000, 20000, kColorValueMaximum} -- From http://www.wilsonmar.com/1colors.htm set myRed to (item 1 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set myGreen to (item 2 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set myBlue to (item 3 of myColor) / kColorValueMaximum set magicY to (0.3 * myRed) + (0.59 * myGreen) + (0.11 * myBlue) if (magicY < 0.5) then return {{65535,65535,65535 },lightGreyColor} else return {{0,0,0},darkGreyColor} end if end ContrastingTextColors
Additional colors? Check out http://noiseandheat.com/blog/2011/12/os-x-lion-terminal-colours/