If I open Ports Jail, then a regular konsole, the regular konsole gets the Ports Jail icon.  I can’t really tell the konsole sessions apart.

The same things happens if I do it the other way around.  If I open a regular konsole, then Ports Jail, the Ports Jail gets the konsole icon. Again, I can’t really tell the konsole sessions apart.

This causes me some confusion.  Which konsole am I running?  I have to take a moment to verify or close them both.

Solution: Opening the Ports Jail with a different konsole profile

One solution is to have the Ports Jail konsole session use its own konsole profile that uses a custom konsole profile.

Here is how I configured that:

1. I created a LavenderOnBlack color scheme, which is a copy of the GreenOnBlack with Lavender instead of Green. Normally I use the GreenOnBlack color scheme.~/kde4/share/apps/konsole/LavenderOnBlack.colorscheme

   [Background]
   Color=0,0,0
   Transparency=false
   
   [BackgroundIntense]
   Color=0,0,0
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color0]
   Color=0,0,0
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color0Intense]
   Color=104,104,104
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color1]
   Color=250,75,75
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color1Intense]
   Color=255,84,84
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color2]
   Color=24,178,24
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color2Intense]
   Color=84,255,84
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color3]
   Color=178,104,24
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color3Intense]
   Color=255,255,84
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color4]
   Color=92,167,251
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color4Intense]
   Color=84,84,255
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color5]
   Color=225,30,225
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color5Intense]
   Color=255,84,255
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color6]
   Color=24,178,178
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color6Intense]
   Color=84,255,255
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color7]
   Color=178,178,178
   Transparency=false
   
   [Color7Intense]
   Color=255,255,255
   Transparency=false
   
   [Foreground]
   Color=192,0,192
   Transparency=false
   
   [ForegroundIntense]
   Bold=true
   Color=210,0,210
   Transparency=false
   
   [General]
   Description=LavenderOnBlack
   Opacity=0.92
   

2. Next I created a copy of the shell.profile named PortsJail.profile.
   ~/kde4/share/apps/konsole/LavenderOnBlack.colorscheme

   [Appearance]
   ColorScheme=LavenderOnBlack
   
   [Cursor Options]
   CustomCursorColor=192,0,0
   UseCustomCursorColor=true
   
   [General]
   MenuIndex=6
   Name=PortsJail
   Parent=FALLBACK/
   RemoteTabTitleFormat=%h : %u
   TabBarMode=1
   TabBarPosition=1
   
   [Scrolling]
   HistoryMode=2
   
   [Terminal Features]
   BlinkingCursorEnabled=true
   

3. I then edited the Ports Jail shortcut on the desktop to pass it the approprate TerminalOptions to use the PortsJail.profile. Here is the one line I changed.

   TerminalOptions=--profile /usr/home/jared/.kde4/share/apps/konsole/PortsJail.profile
   

Now whenever I open the ports Jail, I can easily tell it is the Ports Jail and not the regular konsole because it is using a LavenderOnBlack profile.