Monday, September 2, 2013

Terminal Customization

If you work with terminals whether on linux or on mac, here are few tips & tricks to improve how it looks and feels!
Step 1: For those on linux has the package manager can proceed ahead! For those on mac, I highly recommend getting Homebrew and oh, check out iTerm2!
1) Fortune - A random fortune/saying spouting program.
2) Cowsay - A program that creates ASCII art of animals with some expressions.
3) Separator between commands - Helps to distinguish the starting and ending of command and it's output.
4) Colors and Prompt - While most terminals comes with properties and abilities to change color of text and background, this will help in customizing how you view files, folders, scripts, etc.

Few other examples of terminals and tweaks customized by others:
1) Battery capacity - for those working from laptop.
2) Background image - instead of monotone background color.

No comments :

Post a Comment