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When I used KDE, my ssh-to-production script used dcop to change the terminal background colour. (KDE + dcop is great technology. External access to APIs running in other processes. API discovery. Great stuff.)

Whilst gnome-terminal claims to speak dbus, I don't see any functionality exposed which would allow this. Does anyone have any pointers to achieving the same thing?

(Solutions which have occurred to me but which I find unsatisfying: run kterm under gnome, have a launcher script open a new terminal with the desired colour. I'm being picky, but my habits are such that I live in a small number of terminals. I'd like those terminals to change state as I ssh around.)



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