Remotty: Remote XTerm Connection Script


Remotty is a little shell script I threw together to make it easy to manage remote connections at work. Remotty has a configuration file that allows you to specify remote hosts, a connection method (SSH, rsh or telnet), window title, and a color theme for the resulting XTerm (foreground, background and cursor colors). I find that it is much easier to distinguish which XTerm window is connected to which remote host when each host has its own unique color theme. The remotty configuration file, .hostcolorsrc, is a convenient single location to store this sort of information.

You can download the remotty shell script and a sample configuration file here as a single tarchive, or you can look at the shell script, the README file or configuration file directly.


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