custom bash terminal

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: custom bash terminal
started by: darkerror05

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Posted by darkerror05 on Feb. 26 2006,02:38

is there any good reference to how to customize the bash terminal.  I know how to change background, text and curser colors but is there like a list of all the colors i can use?  And is there any way to change the opacity?

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Posted by mikshaw on Feb. 26 2006,04:25

The easiest way i know of to change the opacity is to edit .Xdefaults.  The line in question is aterm*shading.  0 is fully opaque and 100 is fully transparent.  This is the equivalent of the "-sh <number>" commandline parameter.

colors:
< http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html >

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Posted by Volfield on Feb. 27 2006,19:44

is there any way to bash display polish letters? i'm from polan and i really need this. Please help me

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Posted by skaos on Feb. 28 2006,11:31

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-tip-prompt/

For example, I add the following to root's .bashrc and .bash_profile to get a bold red prompt:
PS1='\e[31;1m\h(\u):\w\$\e[0m '
export PS1

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