#terminal #alacritty #randomizer #color

app rand-bk

A terminal emulator launcher that applies random background colors to be easy to distinguish between multiple terminal windows

1 unstable release

Uses new Rust 2024

0.1.0 Aug 24, 2025

#1746 in Development tools

MIT license

8KB
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Rand Bk

This tool is designed to launch your terminal emulator with a random background color, chosen from a predefined set of colors. It is particularly useful for those who enjoy a bit of variety in their terminal aesthetics.

Motivation

Often you're working on the terminal and then you open multiple tabs or windows, and they all look the same. This can make it hard to quickly identify which terminal window you're working no what. By using a random background color, you can easily distinguish between different terminal instances.

Support list

  • Alacritty [✅]
  • Ghostty [⌛]
  • GNOME Terminal [⌛]

Dependencies

~4–33MB
~474K SLoC