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Here's an obscure one, it used to be that if you ...

  • opened a window A (say, green bg, your default)
  • open another window B
  • open prefs
  • change the bg color in prefs to yellow
  • that would change B to yellow, but leave the other one green

In this way you could fairly easily have mulitiple Terminal windows, with, different bg colors for clarity.

Unfortunately Apple fixed this bug a couple yrs ago! Changing color in prefs now changes all open windows!

Is there any way to get different color backgrounds in Terminal when more than one window is open?

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(Do note, you can set that BACKGROUND windows have low alpha (look at, strangely, the bottom of the color pane. This doesn't help at all. If I have four shells to four servers, I want them to have red, green, blue, yellow backgrounds. Thanks!)

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Reset to default
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You should make four shell profiles by using the duplicate option and create your shells from those different profiles.

Edit: There are other answers with alternatives that may better suit different use cases. This way is still going to be the nicest approach for consistent re-use of color sets.

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  • Ah! Spectacular - I had no idea at all about that menu option. Thanks so much. Bounty en route
    – Fattie
    Commented Oct 19, 2020 at 14:27
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Ah! Terminal now includes this:

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That menu option alone DOES offer "individual" background color change. Phew.

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I believe you can still use Command-I and use that floating info panel to change the theme of any terminal window.

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  • In fact, see my answer, it now seems to be "option-command-I" ! Great stuff.
    – Fattie
    Commented Oct 19, 2020 at 18:17

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