Good day all!

First I’d like to thank all the people who replied to my first post and provided so much valuable information! Since then I’ve been trying to force myself to get comfortable with using the terminal! To this end I’ve been running Sway as my Desktop Environment and printed out a cheat sheet to place next to my screen.

Now, a paragraph deep, for the question(s):

How do y’all customize your terminals? I’m not looking for tutorials, just your preferences. How long did it take for you to settle on your favourite? What did you prioritize when customizing? What customization are you fondest of?

Thanks in advance to any and all replies, hope to hear from you all soon!

4 points

I use Fish as my shell. It’s got some really nice convenience features, without needing customization, which I find useful. If I’m working in a VM or some server for a bit longer, I’ll often just install the fish package and have my normal level of (good) usability.
Downside is that Fish uses somewhat different syntax than Bash, so I can’t just copy-paste more complex commands into there. But yeah, then you’ll see me run bash, then the complex command in there, and then I’ll exit back out of there.

For the shell prompt, I’m using Starship with a bit of a custom theme, based on their Gruvbox Rainbow preset:

So, what it shows there is:

  • the exit-code, if it’s non-zero
  • the duration how the long the command took, if it’s longer than a few seconds
  • the timestamp when that command finished
  • the path where I’m in
  • the Git branch and whether I’ve got changes that are uncommitted, stashed etc., if I’m in a directory with Git repo
  • the toolchain in the repo that I’m in

I also use light theme in the terminal. Sue me. 🙃

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Thanks for the post! Never would’ve known about Starship. Your setup seems a bit feature-rich for me at the moment but it’s nice knowing its an option.

I tried light theme for 0.000000128 seconds, and in that time my eyeballs melted out of my head and onto my keyboard.

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How do y’all customize your terminals?

I only use one terminal (Alacritty). I do nothing more than just setting size, font, and colors. I basically took the config with me when I migrated from kittie to Alacritty. My kittie config mainly came from when I initially setting up xterm and later urxvt.

I love consistency and minimalism when it comes to setting up any kind of software. So my terminal configuration is basically the same since ca. 2007.

[window]
dimensions = { columns = 120, lines = 32 }
resize_increments = true # gets ignored, though

[font]
size = 14
normal = { family = 'DejaVu Sans Mono', style = 'Regular' }

[colors.primary]
foreground = '#d3d7cf'
background = '#2e3436'

[colors.normal]
black   = '#2e2e34'
red     = '#cc0000'
green   = '#4e9a06'
yellow  = '#c4a000'
blue    = '#3465a4'
magenta = '#75507b'
cyan    = '#06989a'
white   = '#d3d7cf'

[colors.bright]
black    = '#555753'
red      = '#ef2929'
green    = '#8ae234'
yellow   = '#fce94f'
blue     = '#729fcf'
magenta  = '#ad7fa8'
cyan     = '#34e2e2'
white    = '#eeeeec'

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I mostly learned from some of the terminal customization which came stock with Manjaro when I was first learning Linux. So when I made the jump to Arch, I customized my terminal with fsh with the powerlevel10k theme and text highlighting. I also modified some of the default text colors to a green color to evoke green phosphor CRT terminals.

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I honestly overlooked that when i was trying out Manjaro.

My grandpa had a green CRT. I’m unsure of the make and model, but it’s long since gone.

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2 points

Just defaults. Mostly cus I have no idea what I’m doing still

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hey its me ur bruther…

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I put a dozen aliases in bash_aliases and call it a day. If I find myself in the terminal I don’t want to be hamstrung with some unique configs that nobody can help me with and I can’t remember making.

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This feels TOO reasonable, I love it.

What’s the most common aliases you use?

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Just standard little shortcuts like cd. , cd… , and ls for ls -lah. Nothing special.

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