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jasonmclose
jasonmclose

Reputation: 1695

How to change terminal background to photo in OS X

In order to help differentiate between terminal windows from a 30k foot view, I'd like to have different background pics for my terminal windows.

Every time a terminal window opens, I'd like to set the background to a random pic from a certain folder.

I know you can change the color via osascript stuff, but I haven't seen how I could set a current terminal's background to a pic (and not change the background for all of them).

Anyone have any clues?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1187

Answers (1)

David Hoelzer
David Hoelzer

Reputation: 16381

Unless something has changed, OS X does not expose the background image property to osascript.

However, you can do the following:

osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal" to set background color of first window to {0,17655,0,-16373}'

So, you could change the color via script. If you really want an image, though, when you go into the terminal preferences, rather than choosing a single image choose a folder containing a set of images. If you do this, each terminal will successively iterate through these background images!

Upvotes: 3

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