[xmonad] colourful xterms

[Anze Slosar]

Hi,

A couple of days a made a trivial hack that made me very happy, so I want 
to share the trick here. The trick is to start rxvt-unicode with

-bg \\#`randcolor.py` -fg \\#EEEEEE

where randcolor is a simple python script that returns a random hex color 
with rgb random in range(0..100) (to be dark enough for white font):

#!/usr/bin/env python
from random import *
rs=["%X"%(int(uniform(0,100))) for x in range(3)]
s=''
for x in rs:
     while len(x)<2:
         x="0"+x
     s+=x
print s

The outcome is that every term you start has slightly different shade of 
background. This not only makes your screen much more colourful and nice, 
but also helps with 0 or 1 pixel borders as terminals now clearly separate 
into areas on the screen of different colors so it is actually very 
useful!

Best,

anže

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