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Saurabh Sharma
Saurabh Sharma

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Can I see your terminal?

Last time, I posted Can I see your desktop home screen and it went more popular than I thought.

This time I want to see your Terminal.

is it hyper? or iterm? or xterm something? post down below.

here is mine

terminal

update 1:

Now after looking at some cool terminal I have updated to fluent terminal.

update 1

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Arnaud Morisset • Edited

Nice post, here is mine. It's really "classic" with a little companion:

iterm

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2h0n

that's cool. how?

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Arnaud Morisset

Just one line in my .zshrc. ;)

export PROMPT='%F{235}%B%c%b%f$(_currentKubernetesContextName)$(_currentEnvironmentName)%(?.(%F{198}β™₯%fβ€Ώ%F{198}β™₯%f.(%F{75}ΰ²₯%f_%F{75}ΰ²₯%f)) '

NB: You can omit the Kubernetes part.

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2h0n

cheers mate.

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Dian Fay • Edited

I use termite with zsh. The calendar is when. Font is Inconsolata-dz (a variant with straight quotation marks). Window titles are displayed in my statusbar so I save a tiny bit of space by eliminating borders and titlebars. Pressing ESC or Ctrl+[ switches the command line from insert to command mode so I can navigate as in vi.

dotfiles here

terminal with calendar and git status

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Sean Crossey

is that massive-js as in the not-really-an-orm for postgres? if so i discovered it yesterday - great package!

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Dian Fay

It is, yes! Glad you like it!

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Alex Miasoiedov

perfect one! 10/10

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Jess Chandler • Edited

Love the question and all the responses. I'm using zsh and the man theme - ran a few dir and speak commands to show how git and time are incorporated.
myterminal

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JD Taft

This kinda looks like a giant Post-It note. I like that.

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Jess Chandler

I stumbled on the yellow while playing around with the default choices in Terminal. :) I like it...almost all of my other coding screens are dark grey.

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Lucas Moulin • Edited

I try to keep it pretty minimal

iTerm with zsh

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Bo • Edited

Here is my minimal setup:

minimal terminal setup

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Haythem

how to have 3 different color please

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Bo

Default Oh My ZSH setup

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Akinwale Oshodi • Edited

Seems more like prezto and not Oh My ZSH.

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Bo

Yeah you are correct, my bad. I have since switched over to fish shell.

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Stephanie

I have a random happy ascii character and a motivational phrase every new window. :)

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Gunnar Gissel • Edited

Here's where I make the money...

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lynn

This is the ideal terminal. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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Michael Born

Is it? From my experience, the windows terminal is both less useful and simply slower to use than any Unix terminal. But it certainly gets the job done.

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Gunnar Gissel

GG Allyn is referencing this: twitter.com/scrowder/status/687260...

There are definitely better terminals, even on Windows. Still, this is what I get paid for

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Michael Born

Ah, I get it. Yeah, for our Windows servers I like git bash.

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Gunnar Gissel

Our environment is locked down enough that git bash isn’t an option for me. I like it when I get the chance, though!

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Sergiu Mureşan

The Linux simulation you see when you open Git Bash is actually MSYS2 which you can find right here

You can do really cool things with it, like using the GCC tool-chain right inside of Windows.

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d3rrila • Edited

Here's mine :D

And on Windows:

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Michael Born

Hold on while I go install neofetch...

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Mohammed Foysal

What terminal are you using for Windows. I've been using Git Bash but am looking for something better, preferably something with ZSH.

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d3rrila • Edited

Sorry to disappoint, I'm actually using the Windows Subsystem for Linux together with VcXsrv and basically I just compiled my regular linux terminal for it ( st.suckless.org/ )
The font I'm using is Realtime by Juri Zaech in case anybody cares.

I hope this helps, but I'm sorry if it doesn't.

Edit: st has quite a few drawbacks. It's a terminal emulator and literally nothing else. You don't even have a scrollback buffer. There are patches on the website for it, but expect to manually splice them in with some code surgery, because those patches are always out of date.

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Stephanie Handsteiner

In case someone asks, this is the theme.

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Cedric

Nord is the best theme for terminal

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Jess Lee

On my home machine πŸ˜„

mossgreen-iterm

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Jess Lee

Here's my work machine πŸ˜‡

iterm-pink-terminal

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Meghan (she/her)

wait, bash has tabs?

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T-Bone • Edited

Iterm ftw

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Thibault Maekelbergh

Any macOS terminal has tabs.

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Kjell Otto

This is just the iTerm app as a Terminal replacement. But you can make "bash has tabs" with screen or tmux :) have a look, it's really great for remote work too.

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teakap

Linux OS have tabs as well. Try ctr+shift+t ;)

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Lucas Moulin

Quick tip: If you press Cmd+Shift+4 and then press Space you can take a screenshot of a single application :)

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Enno Rehling (恩諾) • Edited

What they didn't tell me: Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4 will put the screenshot into the clipboard, which is a lot easier when what you want is to paste directly into Slack.

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Lucas Moulin

This is awesome too! Unless you use Safari, because Safari doesn't support this =/

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Enno Rehling (恩諾)

My final recommendation for screenshots is Skitch, which has very nifty tools for annotating. I love the arrows especially.

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Lucas Moulin

Skitch is great, I stopped using it when I found out that Preview has a lot of those annotating features. It isn't as feature full as Skitch, but it fits me well.

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toby

If on Windows 10 there is the WinKey + Shift + S keycombo to launch selecting an area to screen shot which gets copied to the clipboard.
Or just hit WinKey, type snip, and hit enter, then select the Window selection.
Or use the WinKey + Alt + prntscrn shortcut with the correct window selected and a shot will be saved to your Captures directory

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Ashley Sheridan

All these crazy key combinations, on Linux all you need to do is press the regular old print screen button, and it lets you do any of those things without having to remember arcane sequences ;)

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miku86

And if you hit Alt + Print,
you get a screenshot of the current focused window.

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Guney Ozsan

Good old print screen still works on Windows. These are for custom crops.

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Mac Siri

Woah that is a neat tip.

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Valentin Baca • Edited

FYI You can get rid of the "Last login" with touch .hushlogin

Also, I really like the "cash cow" prompt :)

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Khaled Garbaya • Edited

here you go

terminal

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ras

Is that NERDTree or something different?

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Khaled Garbaya

Yep that's nerd tree

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Brad

What editor is that? Looks neat.

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Andre Christoga Pramaditya

Vim.

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Brad

Lol I know how to exit vim, I swear. Didn't recognize it with the file explorer showing.

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Harry

How's react dev in vim?

I ended up moving away because I couldn't deal with large projects - I've started pulling it up for quick edits in my Vs code terminal though. I miss the utility

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Khaled Garbaya

Works very well for me and especially with the combination of tmux I do all my coding in one terminal window. I can even zoom in one pane, do something and zoom back out.

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dmdinh22

Any way you can share your .vimrc? would like to check out your settings.

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Khaled Garbaya

Sure thing, use this branch it is up to date github.com/Khaledgarbaya/dotfiles/...