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General => Suggestions and Feedback => Topic started by: arman1992 on December 31, 2014, 04:57:04 PM
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Hi. Hope everyone is doing well.
I'm new to Linux Lite and so far, satisfied with it! A little suggestion. Just if the coloring of terminal emulator and grub was in harmony with the white and gray atmosphere of the distro...
Something like: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6qoqp71nce87vs/Screenshot%20.png?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6qoqp71nce87vs/Screenshot%20.png?dl=0)
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Great idea ! funny did had white over black on my Terminal .
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http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/preferences
You can configure the color anyway you like.
Sheng-Chieh
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arman1992,
Very good idea -- it would be great to have the terminal set by default as you've shown in your pic. Now that you mention it, the terminal does seem a bit out of place looking compared to everything else. Much, much better the way you set it up! (Don't know why it never occurred to me to do that too.) Wouldn't surprise me at all if Jerry integrates your idea into the next version of LL.
Welcome to the forum and thanks for the suggestion.
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Keep the ideas coming up mate !
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anyone use " guake " ( in the repos).
I find it easier to use, just toggle on and off with F12, customize it to your liking :)
Worth a look.
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arman1992, what's the font and the hex color of the font you are using? Cheers.
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^ Monospace 11
Background: #464646
Foreground: #F0F0F0
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Thank you, I have seen some nice white on grey terminals and have decided this theme better suits our overall look and will be going into 2.4
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Hello!
Actually, being both old AND 'old school', on the UEFI netbook, I actually found myself doing such things to Ubuntu MATE as changing the terminal to the 'green screen' look, installing Thunar, Lite Cleaner, Pulse Audio, and the like.
I don't see this as a permanent solution - just waiting to be able to use LL in UEFI mode without resorting to terminal-switching tomfoolery (CTRL-F2/CTRL-F8) to get it to go to the logoff/shutdown screen in under a minute...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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Perhaps we could change some colors
leafpad $HOME/.bashrcThem adding this to the end
if [ $USER = 'root' ]; then
PS1="\[\033[01;31m\]$USER@$HOSTNAME\[\033[0;00m\] \[\033[01;32m\]\w\\$\[\033[0;00m\] "
else
PS1="\[\033[01;33m\]$USER@$HOSTNAME\[\033[0;00m\] \[\033[01;32m\]\w\\$\[\033[0;00m\] "
fi(http://i.imgur.com/3hlDmMC.png)
Perhaps white bold would better match the current theme
if [ $USER = 'root' ]; then
#If user is root just print the hostname in yellow
PS1="\[\033[01;33m\]$HOSTNAME\[\033[0;00m\] \[\033[01;32m\]\w\\$\[\033[0;00m\] "
else
PS1="\[\033[01;97m\]$USER@$HOSTNAME\[\033[0;00m\] \[\033[01;32m\]\w\\$\[\033[0;00m\] "
fi
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Misko, that is a great idea. Having root as either bold or a different color just makes sense.
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I like that idea too, Misko.
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I'm surprised people have not been doing this within their profiles. I've had my terminal colors and PS1 set for years across distros.
Here is my prompt configuration (compilation of various online resources over time):
##################################################
# Fancy PWD display function
##################################################
# The home directory (HOME) is replaced with a ~
# The last pwdmaxlen characters of the PWD are displayed
# Leading partial directory names are striped off
# /home/me/stuff -> ~/stuff if USER=me
# /usr/share/big_dir_name -> ../share/big_dir_name if pwdmaxlen=20
##################################################
bash_prompt_command() {
# How many characters of the $PWD should be kept
local pwdmaxlen=25
# Indicate that there has been dir truncation
local trunc_symbol=".."
local dir=${PWD##*/}
pwdmaxlen=$(( ( pwdmaxlen < ${#dir} ) ? ${#dir} : pwdmaxlen ))
NEW_PWD=${PWD/#$HOME/\~}
local pwdoffset=$(( ${#NEW_PWD} - pwdmaxlen ))
if [ ${pwdoffset} -gt "0" ]
then
NEW_PWD=${NEW_PWD:$pwdoffset:$pwdmaxlen}
NEW_PWD=${trunc_symbol}/${NEW_PWD#*/}
fi
}
bash_prompt() {
case $TERM in
xterm*|rxvt*)
local TITLEBAR='\[\033]0;\u:${NEW_PWD}\007\]'
;;
*)
local TITLEBAR=""
;;
esac
local NONE="\[\033[0m\]" # unsets color to term's fg color
# regular colors
local K="\[\033[0;30m\]" # black
local R="\[\033[0;31m\]" # red
local G="\[\033[0;32m\]" # green
local Y="\[\033[0;33m\]" # yellow
local B="\[\033[0;34m\]" # blue
local M="\[\033[0;35m\]" # magenta
local C="\[\033[0;36m\]" # cyan
local W="\[\033[0;37m\]" # white
# empahsized (bolded) colors
local EMK="\[\033[1;30m\]"
local EMR="\[\033[1;31m\]"
local EMG="\[\033[1;32m\]"
local EMY="\[\033[1;33m\]"
local EMB="\[\033[1;34m\]"
local EMM="\[\033[1;35m\]"
local EMC="\[\033[1;36m\]"
local EMW="\[\033[1;37m\]"
# background colors
local BGK="\[\033[40m\]"
local BGR="\[\033[41m\]"
local BGG="\[\033[42m\]"
local BGY="\[\033[43m\]"
local BGB="\[\033[44m\]"
local BGM="\[\033[45m\]"
local BGC="\[\033[46m\]"
local BGW="\[\033[47m\]"
local UC=$W # user's color
[ $UID -eq "0" ] && UC=$R # root's color
#PS1="$TITLEBAR ${EMG}[${UC}$(date +%H:%M:%S) ${UC}\u${EMB}@${UC}\h ${EMG}\${NEW_PWD}${EMB}]${UC}\\$ ${NONE}"
PS1="$TITLEBAR ${G}[${C}\d \t \h ${G}\${NEW_PWD}]${UC}\\$ ${NONE}"
# without colors: PS1="[\u@\h \${NEW_PWD}]\\$ "
# extra backslash in front of \$ to make bash colorize the prompt
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=bash_prompt_command
bash_prompt
unset bash_prompt
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Great idea, Misko, especially considering newcomers to Linux would be a bit overwhelmed in having to figure that out.
I have configured it myself. BUT I definitely would prefer it coming out of the box this way.
In addition to this and even more important for me would be to implement that broken links are shown in a different color like this:
(http://i.imgur.com/r4cDxiq.png)
The last couple of days I have extensively worked with softlinks and it was a huge hassle with the default setting not showing valid and broken links in different colors.
Thanks, riser, for sharing!
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Misko, that is a great idea. Having root as either bold or a different color just makes sense.
It's logical.
I like that idea too, Misko.
I think it would be helpfull. Some other distros use this by default.
I'm surprised people have not been doing this within their profiles. I've had my terminal colors and PS1 set for years across distros.
Here is my prompt configuration (compilation of various online resources over time):
Thanks for sharing riser. +
Great idea, Misko, especially considering newcomers to Linux would be a bit overwhelmed in having to figure that out.
I have configured it myself. BUT I definitely would prefer it coming out of the box this way.
In addition to this and even more important for me would be to implement that broken links are shown in a different color like this:
The last couple of days I have extensively worked with softlinks and it was a huge hassle with the default setting not showing valid and broken links in different colors.
Thanks, riser, for sharing!
LL-user everything is customizable. Those who remember DOS would easily adapt. ;)
I think those os us who use the terminal more often would like to have some colors.
Those who don't probably think it's too geeky. :)
Thanks for your suggestion. We'll see about that.
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I'm just using the default color settings. So the setup only needs one step, i.e. putting the following code into /etc/bash.bashrc:
if [ -f $HOME/.dir_colors ]; then
eval $(/usr/bin/dircolors -b $HOME/.dir_colors)
elif [ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ]; then
eval $(/usr/bin/dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS)
else
eval $(/usr/bin/dircolors -b)
fi
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I like that. No need for the eval here though.
if [ -f $HOME/.dir_colors ]; then
/usr/bin/dircolors -b $HOME/.dir_colors
elif [ -f /etc/DIR_COLORS ]; then
/usr/bin/dircolors -b /etc/DIR_COLORS
else
/usr/bin/dircolors -b
fi
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Have started working on LL 2.6, here is what I have for the root prompt, with a caution:
(http://i.imgur.com/bWncATS.png)
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Hi Jerry,
Good idea to give an additional heads up.
I just did a test installation of Fedora and very much like their approach, a one time, extended warning at the beginning:
(http://t6.pixhost.org/thumbs/2961/28579407_sudo_message.png) (http://www.pixhost.org/show/2961/28579407_sudo_message.png)