Using Xterm on Linux is very easy. Useful shortcuts.
How to access various menus in the Xterm terminal emulator.
How to access various menus in the Xterm terminal emulator.
How to use tput to set the colors in a bash script or a PS1.
How to open the buffers-menu in Xemacs and also how to set custom colors for the text editor.
Some very useful tips for setting up the Xterm terminal emulator on Linux or UNIX.
How to best view all available terminal colours This one-liner will print out all available terminal colours for your chosen Linux terminal application. This is very useful for creating a colourful bash prompt and the user wishes to know which colour codes will work and look good in the terminal. for x in {0..8}; do … Read more
This userChrome.css file will colour your Firefox browser toolbars all one colour. userChrome.css1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 … Read more
If you’ve ever piped the output of one command into the input of the other or joined simple commands together to do complex tasks, then you have a taste for the power of the shell. As you use the shell more and more you’ll discover how powerful it is and that, more often than not, … Read more
A color terminal on Linux can print a wide variety of colors. But how many colors can it print? The colortest utility can show this. Install it like this. ┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt-get install colortest┌──[[email protected]]─[~/Documents] └──╼ ╼ $ sudo apt-get install colortest Then run it to get a display table for 16-color terminal … Read more
This bash script will give you a custom bash prompt that has colors that are switchable on the fly. PS1=$( sep=$’\xC2\xBB’ # UTF-8 U+00BB red=$(tput setaf 1) green=$(tput setaf 2) yellow=$(tput setaf 3) blue=$(tput setaf 4) cyan=$(tput setaf 5) bold=$(tput bold) reset=$(tput sgr0) [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]] && user=$red || user=$green echo … Read more
To change the background color of the Linux Mint terminal, access the Profile Preferences like this. Then navigate to this tab to change the background color of the terminal window. This way, themes may be chosen, or a custom color may be chosen to set just the color you wish to use. This is how … Read more
This is a BASH shell script that will print all of the available colors using the BASH shell. The colors are useful for colorizing your BASH prompt to differentiate it from your shell output. #!/bin/bash # colors.sh – Print out all the different ECMA color-mod combos # # 2008 – Mike Golvach – [email protected] … Read more
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