How to make terminal looks cool/better/informative, as in this first post?

[lizardidi]

Hi, i fell in love with the terminal looks as on the first post on this thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112927

But, after few days of google search, i cant figure out how these effects were implemented. Can anyone show me what it is, or which packages to install in order to get those geeky effects in my terminal?

[bigpup]

I you are talking about URXVT terminal that is default terminal in most Puppies.

In the terminal

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urxvtcontrol

Should pop up a window with eye candy options you can set and adjust.

Note:
Be careful using transparency.
Desktop background can affect what you can see in a transparent display.
Best to just keep it turned off.
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[lizardidi]

As in this picture posted by sc0ttman, his terminal displays info such as power, wifi, user info etc on every input.



Not sure thou, whether it is urxvt specific. I personally prefer lxterminal.

[bigpup]

Send scOttsman a PM and ask him.
He probably has made a special start command to run terminal.
ucp.php?i=pm&mode=compose&u=1373

[rockedge]

First there is a GUI as indicated above to change some of the parameters or begin with looking at /root/.bashrc (Bionic64),
this line sets the prompt in the terminals:

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PS1="\[\e]2;\w\a\e[32m\]$USER\\$ \[\e[0m\]"

Bash special character Bash special character explanation Bash special character Bash special character explanation
\\a an ASCII bell character (07) \\d the date in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May 26")
\\] end a sequence of non-printing characters \\e an ASCII escape character (033)
\\h the hostname up to the first `.' \\H the hostname
\\j the number of jobs currently managed by the shell \\l the basename of the shell's terminal device name
\\n newline \\r carriage return
\\s the name of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion following the final slash) \\t the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
\\T the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format \\@ the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
\\A the current time in 24-hour HH:MM format \\u the username of the current user
\\v the version of bash (e.g., 2.00) \\V the release of bash, version + patchelvel (e.g., 2.00.0)
\\w the current working directory \\W the basename of the current working directory
\\! the history number of this command \\# the command number of this command
\\$ if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $ \\nnn the character corresponding to the octal number nnn
\\\\ a backslash \\[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt
\\D{format} the format is passed to strftime(3) and the result is inserted into the prompt string; an empty format results in a locale-specific time representation. The braces are required
Bash prompt customization

After user logins into the system, user environment variables are initialized from various files:

/etc/profile or /etc/bashrc (system wide)
~/.bash_profile , ~/.bash_login , ~/.profile , ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_logout (user)

It is important to know that all users environment variable have a life time equal to the terminal session. When the terminal session is closed the user's variables including bash shell variables defined during a terminal session are emptied and a again redefined when new terminal session is created either via logo in shell or interactive shell. Lets define two variables to prove this statement.
Permanent bash variable definition

This example is here : https://linuxconfig.org/bash-prompt-basics

[Trapster]

That is a nice looking terminal.
I wonder if the info is in the title bar and not the prompt. ?

[lizardidi]

That is a nice looking terminal.
I wonder if the info is in the title bar and not the prompt. ?

not title bar, click the original post, and you will see. Really good looking.