Changing a terminal window' titlebar color

[Fernando Cassia]

I remember that in previous versions of Gnome (2.x) it was possible to
change on a per-window basis.

What I'd like to achieve is write a caller bash script that intercepts ssh,
and before a ssh session is started, alters the current terminal window
(caller program) to stand out, to easily differentiate visually between
terminal sessions that are local, and others (say: red titlebar) that are
remote ssh sessions.

Is this doable without hacking the gnome source code?.

TIA
FC
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