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Can I see your terminal?

Saurabh Sharma on February 28, 2018

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 hyp...

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Arnaud Morisset • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

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

2h0n • Dec 6 '18

that's cool. how?

Arnaud Morisset • Dec 6 '18

Just one line in my .zshrc. ;)

export PROMPT='%F{235}%B%c%b%f$(_currentKubernetesContextName)$(_currentEnvironmentName)%(?.(%F{198}♥%f‿%F{198}♥%f.(%F{75}ಥ%f_%F{75}ಥ%f)) '

NB: You can omit the Kubernetes part.

2h0n • Dec 7 '18

cheers mate.

Dian Fay • Feb 28 '18 • 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

Sean Crossey • Mar 4 '18

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

Dian Fay • Mar 4 '18

It is, yes! Glad you like it!

Alex Miasoiedov • Mar 5 '18

perfect one! 10/10

Jess Chandler • Feb 28 '18 • 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.

JD Taft • Mar 5 '18

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

Jess Chandler • Mar 6 '18

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.

Lucas Moulin • Feb 28 '18 • Edited

I try to keep it pretty minimal

Bo • May 17 '18 • Edited

Here is my minimal setup:

Haythem • Oct 9 '18

how to have 3 different color please

Bo • Oct 10 '18

Default Oh My ZSH setup

Akinwale Oshodi • Oct 28 '18 • Edited

Seems more like prezto and not Oh My ZSH.

Bo • Nov 4 '18

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

Stephanie • Mar 1 '18

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

Gunnar Gissel • Feb 28 '18 • Edited

Here's where I make the money...

lynn • Mar 3 '18

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

Michael Born • Mar 3 '18

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.

Gunnar Gissel • Mar 3 '18

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

Michael Born • Mar 4 '18

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

Gunnar Gissel • Mar 5 '18

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

d3rrila • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

Here's mine :D

And on Windows:

Michael Born • Mar 3 '18

Hold on while I go install neofetch...

Mohammed Foysal • Mar 4 '18

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

d3rrila • Mar 4 '18 • 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.

Stephanie Handsteiner • Feb 28 '18

In case someone asks, this is the theme.

Cedric • Nov 25 '19

Nord is the best theme for terminal

Jess Lee • Feb 28 '18

On my home machine 😄

Lucas Moulin • Feb 28 '18

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

Enno Rehling (恩諾) • Mar 4 '18 • 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.

Lucas Moulin • Mar 4 '18

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

Enno Rehling (恩諾) • Mar 4 '18

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

Lucas Moulin • Mar 4 '18

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.

Khaled Garbaya • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

here you go

ras • Mar 3 '18

Is that NERDTree or something different?

Khaled Garbaya • May 17 '18

Yep that's nerd tree

Harry • Mar 3 '18

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

Khaled Garbaya • Mar 3 '18

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.

Brad • Mar 2 '18

What editor is that? Looks neat.

Ben Halpern • Mar 1 '18

Unicorn courtesy of this post by @anthonydelgado 🦄

Adding Emoji ðŸ”¥ to your terminal

Anthony Delgado ・ Oct 24 '17 ・ 1 min read

#emoji #beginners #bash

Kevin McGinn • Mar 1 '18 • Edited

Zooming out a bit:

brad oyler • Mar 5 '18

ok, now enhance, pls...

Daniel Kassen • Mar 12 '18

Mac Keyboard shortcut for emojis: ctrl + cmd + space
👌

p-mcgowan • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

Termux on android - I use default terminals (nothing fancy) with dotfiles in source control so all my devices are matching and I can re-provision if I want to destroy them with fire.

My desktop/laptop/server are all the same format (different uname in PS1, semi-transparent background, otherwise default gnome-terminal), and red PS1 when ssh'd in (since I used to shut down the wrong box from time to time). Obviously programming on my phone is a last resort, but it's saved me from production fires before - ssh and data, what else do you need?

Sergio Daniel Xalambrí • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

That's my terminal, I use Hyper with the zsh theme zeit.zsh-theme. I like to keep it simple.

toby • Mar 5 '18

Really don't get why anyone would run node just to type in a terminal... This confuses me. Though it does look pretty.

Dave Jacoby • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

My work linux box:

Meaning, left-to-right:
My computer is up-to-date
TaskWarrior is happy with me
I'm me on my computer
It's almost time to go
It's not too cold out
I've had two cups of coffee today
I'm in my home directory

Jess Chandler • Mar 6 '18

Wow...and I immediately had to go and look up Taskwarrior :)

Kyle Galloway • Mar 6 '18

How??? I want this config!

Dave Jacoby • Mar 6 '18

It helps if you have Font Awesome set up on your system.

This needs cleaning up. As pasted from my prompt.sh

# prompt.sh

# the unified prompt for Dave Jacoby, based on system settings
# and capabilities.

# if a capability is absent for an entry, such as TaskWarrior
# or ACPI, the prompt will drop that in favor of entries it
# can handle.

# Tasks

#   * I have partially added Font Awesome to the prompt,
#     especially for the buttons. I need to more fully 
#     integrate FA fonts. For example, with TaskWarrior 
#     icons

# TASK WARRIOR INTO MY PROMPT
# this part is just fun-with-utf8
# https://twitter.com/pjf/status/852466839145795584
URGENT="2757"
DUETOMORROW="2690"
DUETODAY="2691"
OVERDUE="2639"
OK="2714"

# shows if any TaskWarrior tasks are in need of attention
function task_indicator {
    if [ `task +READY +OVERDUE count` -gt "0" ]  ; then
        printf "%b" "\u$OVERDUE"
    elif [ `task +READY +DUETODAY count` -gt "0" ]  ; then
        printf "%b" "\u$DUETODAY"
    elif [ `task +READY +DUETomorrow count` -gt "0" ]  ; then
        printf "%b" "\u$DUETOMORROW"
    elif [ `task +READY urgency \> 10 count` -gt "0" ]  ; then
        printf "%b" "\u$URGENT"
    else
        printf "%b" "\u$OK"
    fi
}

# here I switch to Font-Awesome, which might not show for dev.to
HOT_BEVERAGE="2615"
POWER="26A1"
#BATTERY="8984"
#POWER="2605"
BATTERY="2606"
NOT=""
fa_bolt=""
fa_plug="" # fa-plug [&#xf1e6
fa_battery="" # fa-battery (alias) [&#xf240;] 4.4
fa_battery_0="" # fa_battery_0 (alias) [&#xf244;] 4.4
fa_battery_1="" # fa_battery_1 (alias) [&#xf243;] 4.4
fa_battery_2="" # fa_battery_2 (alias) [&#xf242;] 4.4
fa_battery_3="" # fa_battery_3 (alias) [&#xf241;] 4.4
fa_battery_4="" # fa_battery_4 (alias) [&#xf240;] 4.4
fa_battery_empty="" # fa_battery_empty [&#xf244;] 4.4
fa_battery_full="" # fa_battery_full [&#xf240;] 4.4
fa_battery_half="" # fa_battery_half [&#xf242;] 4.4
fa_battery_quarter="" # fa_battery_quarter [&#xf243;] 4.4
fa_battery_three="" # fa_battery_three-quarters [&#xf241;] 4.3 fa-bed [&

# PLUGGED IN OR NO
# works on my Linux laptop, not on my desktop

# shows if the battery is currently charging
function battery_charging {
    CHARGING=`/usr/bin/acpi | awk '{ print $3}'`
    if [ $CHARGING = 'Discharging,' ];  then
        printf '%s' $fa_plug
    else
        printf '%s' $fa_bolt
    fi
}

# shows current status of battery
# 0  - 12     EMPTY
# 13 - 37     QUARTER
# 38 - 62     HALF
# 63 - 87     THREE-QUARTER
# 88 - 100    FULL
function battery_life {
    ACPI=`/usr/bin/acpi | awk '{ print $4}'`
    ACPI=${ACPI//[!0-9]/}
    if   [ $ACPI == "100" ];then 
        printf '%s ' $fa_battery_4
    elif [   $ACPI -lt "13" ];then
        printf '%s ' $fa_battery_0
    elif [ $ACPI -lt "38" ];then
        printf '%s ' $fa_battery_1
    elif [ $ACPI -lt "63" ];then
        printf '%s ' $fa_battery_2
    elif [ $ACPI -lt "88" ];then
        printf '%s ' $fa_battery_3
    else 
        printf '%s ' $fa_battery_4
    fi    
}

# opening tag for setting color. depends on a lot of
# variations, including host
function opentag {
    if [ -f "/bin/hostname" ] ; then
        HOST=`/bin/hostname`
    else
        HOST='NONE'
    fi

    if [[ $HOST == *"purdue.edu" ]] ; then
        HOST=`/bin/hostname -s`
    fi

    foreground='38;5;255'
    background=''
    bold='1;'   #1
    dim=''      #2
    italic=''   #3
    reverse=''  #7

    # WORK LINUX COMPUTER
    if [ $HOST = 'oz' ]; then
        foreground='38;5;82'
        bold='1;'
        if [[ -z $DESKTOP_SESSION ]] ; then
            reverse='7;'
        fi

    # WORK WINDOWS 10 COMPUTER 
    elif [ $HOST = 'Lion' ];then
        foreground='38;5;206'
        foreground='38;5;79'
        bold='1;'
        # if [ -z $SYSTEMDRIVE ] ; then
        #    foreground='38;5;196'
        #     bold='1;'
        # fi

    # PERSONAL LINUX COMPUTER
    elif [ $HOST = 'gort' ]; then
        foreground='38;5;39'
        bold='1;'

    # PERSONAL WIN10 COMPUTER
    # works in WSL, not in Git4Windows Bash
    elif [ $HOST = 'K9' ]; then
        foreground='38;5;39'
        bold='1;'

    # REMOVING SOME WORK HOSTS
    fi
    printf "\e[%s%s%s%s%sm" $bold $dim $italic $reverse $background $foreground
    # unset HOST foreground background bold dim italic reverse 
}

# closes all open tag types
function closetag {
    printf "\e[0m"
    }

# if wanted, just bold and white
function boldwhite {
    printf "\e\[1;38;5;255m"
    }

# sets the PS1 variable
# function set_ps1 {

    header="\[\033]0;\u@\h: \w\007\]"
    # chroot="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}"
    chroot=""
    userhost="\u@\h "
    localtime="\A "
    path="\w "
    end="\n\$ "

    # the coffee, weather and reboot info are called in other programs
    # every time the prompt is run
    task="\$(task_indicator)"
    battery_charging="\$(battery_charging)"
    battery_life="\$(battery_life)"
    timer_show="($timer_show)"
    reboot="\$(~/bin/need_reboot.pl)"
    temp="\$(~/bin/get_temp.pl)"
    coffee="\$(~/bin/get_coffee.pl) "
    dbus="\$(~/local/bin/pull_dbus_address.sh)"
    git="\$(__git_ps1)"

    open="$(opentag)"
    close="$(closetag)"

    prompt=$header

    # I add getting and storing the DBUS address so I can 
    # control Spotify from the command line and take webcam
    # pictures via Crontab
    if [ -f ~/local/bin/pull_dbus_address.sh ];then
        prompt="$prompt$dbus"
    fi

    prompt="$prompt\n\[$open\]"

    if [ -f ~/bin/need_reboot.pl ];then
        prompt="$prompt$reboot "
    fi

    if [ -f /usr/bin/acpi ];then
        prompt="$prompt$battery_charging "
        prompt="$prompt$battery_life "
    fi

    if [ -f /usr/bin/task ];then
        prompt="$prompt$task "
    fi

    prompt=$prompt$userhost
    prompt=$prompt$localtime

    if [ -f ~/bin/get_temp.pl ];then
        prompt="$prompt$temp "
    fi

    if [ -f ~/bin/get_coffee.pl ];then
        prompt="$prompt$coffee "
    fi

    prompt=$prompt$path
    prompt=$prompt$chroot
    prompt=$prompt$git

    if [ -f ~/.timing ];then
        prompt="$prompt$timer_show "
    fi

    prompt=$prompt$end
    prompt="$prompt\[$close\]"

    trap 'timer_start' DEBUG
    PROMPT_COMMAND="timer_stop"
    export PS1=$prompt
    # unset chroot close coffee dbus end git header open path prompt reboot task temp localtime userhost
# }

# set_ps1

and this in my .bashrc:

if [ -f /home/jacoby/bin/prompt.sh ]; then
    source /home/jacoby/bin/prompt.sh 
else
    export PS1="\n\
\[\033]0;\u@\h: \w\007\]\
${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\
\u@\h \
\A \
\$(~/bin/pull_dbus_address.sh)\w\$(__git_ps1)\
\n\$ "

fi

Kyle Galloway • Mar 6 '18

Thanks

olkinn • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

Here's mine! Tmux + fish + custom themes for both iterm and emacs
(github.com/olkinn/forest-blue-iTerm and github.com/olkinn/forest-blue-emacs)

Yechiel Kalmenson • Mar 1 '18 • Edited

The // ♥ is the default prompt in Flatiron School's IDE (a play on their motto "Learn, Love, Code"), and I've been adding it to my terminal ever since.

Doug Miller • Jan 30 '19

how do i get out of script and the // ♥ prompt? I can't use terminal for anything else.

Yechiel Kalmenson • Jan 30 '19

The settings for the prompt are usually in a file in the home directory called .bashrc or .bash_profile, search for PS1, that's the variable that holds your bash prompt. If you want to change it just change the value of PS1.

There are lots of tutorials online that teach how to add dynamic information to the prompt, like the current working directory, the time, and how to add color.

Doug Miller • Jan 30 '19

Thanks for the help,

It seems that some kind of script was running and even when I exit it, It would restart when opened terminal again.

It started after I followed the set up the Flatiron school tutorials.

In the end I deleted all the .bashxx files and restarted terminal.

Nothing succeeds like excess!

Timothy Cole • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) in Hyper with ZSH
Hyper Config: gist.github.com/TimothyCole/a15953...

toby • Mar 5 '18

Pretty! But how is Hyper performance? (startup times, execution, etc)

Élie • Mar 7 '18

The Hyper buffer is very bad... You can't run cat on large files. But the rest is acceptable, the slowest thing is WSL with OhMyZSH

toby • Mar 7 '18

I do find OhMyZsh kinda slow on WSL. There are ways of reducing the issue but not completely :-\

Timothy Cole • Mar 8 '18

I don't have any problems with startup times or anything. It takes like half a second to open and it's fine. (I have an i7-6700k with 32GB of Ram if that helps)

Erik Nelson • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

Work Macbook: Hyper with Pure, and Zsh using the Spaceship theme

Kiran Tambe • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

This is the best, because I use the same😁

Casey Webb • Mar 6 '18 • Edited

spaceship-prompt + tmux in Hyper with hypernasa plugin. Left pane is gtop.

The entire .zshrc can be found in my setup repo

Martin Becker • Mar 6 '18 • Edited

What's performance on Hyper like? I ask because I know how slow atom can be and seeing as how this is also built on electron I'm a little skeptical on it's performance potential.
Also, my terminal:

I run Tmux with vim as my main editor and zsh as my shell, I use zplug for zsh plugin management.
My theme is gruvbox on my term and in vim

Casey Webb • Mar 6 '18 • Edited

It's not fantastic, but good enough for how I use it. Performance degrades quickly as you start adding plugins.

I typically use VS Code's terminal for the convenience, but it's also wicked fast. Sure do miss the APOD background though...

EDIT: Hyper 2 uses VS Code's renderer, thus it's now also wicked fast.

Philipp • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

I use hyper as terminal, zsh as shell and pure (github.com/sindresorhus/pure).

toby • Mar 5 '18

Are you using git bash on Windows 10? What's wrong with WSL?

I have Ubuntu WSL with a console theme and oh my zsh with power-line theme and a patched font, for use as regular terminal. But I also have it set for using as the terminal in vscode.

Saurabh Sharma • Mar 6 '18

Wsl is the best thing in Windows. Nothing is wrong with it. 😋

Desmond Edem • Dec 26 '18

How did you patch your fonts on WSL? I noticed some icons are not displaying on my terminal. I use fira code

toby • Dec 26 '18

The one I was using was from the power line font pack, there is a patched power line pack. I'm not sure if that had First.

However, there is now Nerd Fonts (github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts) which is a much larger pack of patched fonts - still not sure if first is in that.

To use any of the forms from any pack, simply unzip the font you want, install it on windows in the normal manner (right click & install iirc) then restart the shell and check the shell properties to select the new font.

Desmond Edem • Dec 26 '18 • Edited

Thanks alot for replying. Let me try this right away.

Edit: Hey @toby it worked.

Desmond Edem • Dec 26 '18 • Edited

I don't like the amount of information being displayed there. Any tip on how to make it lean like yours?

Thank You

Dimitri Acosta • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

Here's mine, I'm using iTerm2 on macOS with oh-my-zsh, color theme is nova and the iTerm theme is cobalt2

Pedro M. M. • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

I like it simple and clean :)

Hyper (w/ Hyper One Light theme for the white background) + Zsh + Spaceship theme

Vincent Grovestine • Feb 28 '18 • Edited

I use Guake drop-down terminal with plain ol' bash, a hotkey to open the pane on demand, and semi-transparent so I can see what's going on underneath--often because I have a how-to of some sort open at the same time for reference.

Erin Moore • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

here is mine, every time someone says something about it, it gets more colorful.

Nick Vernij • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

You can make a picture show up by using markdown, like this.

![alt text](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/l7x9ht1ynb1n053xwoyo.png)

Where the url is your own, of course.

Erin Moore • Mar 2 '18

Oh snap, thanks!

Mohammed Ismail Ansari • Mar 7 '18

My terminal: hyper-terminal

Configuration: .hyper.js (Still a long way from complete)

David Ojeda • Feb 28 '18

Nothing fancy here.

Miff • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

I don't think mine is much to look at, other than the status bar at the top. Looking at everyone else's terminals makes me want to fancy mine up more. I mainly wanted to post this because I only saw one other PowerShell user.

Saurabh Sharma • Mar 3 '18

Why don't you user hyper. It's cool. But powershell is too.

Miff • Mar 10 '18

Because Hyper appears to be only for OSX and I use Windows?

Saurabh Sharma • Mar 11 '18

nope, it's cross-platform.

German Emmanuel • Mar 6 '18 • Edited

Hyper + zsh + Pure

Ergenekon Yigit • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

alacritty + tmux + zsh

Galileo Sanchez • Mar 13 '20

tmux, and always a pane with htop and another with docker stats.

Shawn McElroy • Mar 6 '18 • Edited

Here is mine.

zsh
tmux/tmuxp
font: Roboto Mono nerd font from github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

Terminal panes:

exa : github.com/ogham/exa
neofetch and git log
ranger with devicons
htop

I do like termite, but this is the normal terminal in gnome. I just never got around to compiling termite on this machine.

Lajos Kovács • Mar 6 '18 • Edited

This is my work machine
I'm using Iterm2 with zsh shell. The font is mononoki and the syntax theme is panda syntax. Also the system default fullscreen is disabled and has a toggle hotkey for cmd + (dot). So anytime i want something i can toggle my terminal.

Ali Spittel • Mar 2 '18

OhMyZSH + Iterm + spaceship theme

Sodope • Mar 1 '18 • Edited

Nick Taylor • Mar 1 '18 • Edited

You can see my terminal setup in My Mac Setup. TLDR fish shell and iTerm2 with Joker theme, but about to switch back to agnoster. I'm on public transportation at the moment, but there's a screenshot in my setup post.

Nick Taylor • Mar 2 '18

Alright, back in front of my laptop. Here you go.

Shivam • Mar 3 '18

cool!

Nikita Sobolev • Mar 15 '18

I am using Terminal.app with zsh and sobole as theme.
I wrote two articles about my setup: Instant +100% command line productivity boost, Using better CLIs

You can copy all my dotfiles from github: github.com/sobolevn/dotfiles

Alex Pliutau • Mar 3 '18

edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y • Feb 28 '18

Konsole with several tabs. DejaVu Sans Mono font (since I've yet to find proportional font friendly terminals and apps). Very large scroll-back buffer, though I clear it often. Bash.

TheCodeGoddess • Mar 5 '18

Norman • Mar 5 '18

My home setup uses st, tmux with my own theme, zsh with oh-my-zsh and my own theme. The editor is kakoune with theme desertex (comes with the editor). The low contrast shows that the pane is currently not active.

Vinny • Oct 27 '18

How did you get tmux to work with st / kakoune if you don't mind me asking? I'm absolutely loving kakoune + tmux, but the colors are all wonky at the moment. If I try the color overrides in my tmux.conf, then tmux panes fail to work when using Kakoune to invoke them ;(

Vinny • Oct 27 '18

[EDIT] Nevermind! I discovered that I had the wrong overrides :D Thank you for your configs!! I never did take the time to understand the whole tmux color business; I think it's now time that I did.

Adam Wood • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

Emacs in a Mac Terminal.
The bottom buffer is a shell, the top buffer is whatever I am working on (at the moment, a document for docs.opendatakit.org).

When working on web stuff, including docs (which I usually am), I also keep a second terminal open that runs a Python http.server in the build directory.

Emacs has a few different terminal options. I only really like shell, but none of them quite work like I want to.

geraldcroes • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

I'm still looking forward to tweaking it more ... but so far I like it.

Meg Gutshall • Oct 27 '18

How do you add the background photo?

Harry • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

I'll bite!

Zsh with oh-my-zsh and zsh syntax highlighting. Stock Gnome colors... I'll see if I can find an old setup, when I didn't like anything stock

Raphaël Pinson • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

Here is mine: bash with nerd fonts, tuned git prompt, icons based on location + files in folder & custom colors

Steven Washington • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

I pretty much exclusively use iTerm's hotkey window overlay to access my terminal from anywhere (with global shortcut). Shell is zsh with the agnoster theme.

Every day starts with:

Alt+Space
cd ~/Document/projects/...
code .

Carly Ho 🌈 • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

Using spaceship prompt & a terminal color theme of my own devising:

Fen Slattery • Mar 9 '18

Love it! Do you have a link to the image you have as the background?

Carly Ho 🌈 • Mar 9 '18

It's from one of the wallpapers in this pack, if I remember correctly!

Jason C. McDonald • Feb 28 '18

I've got two. Guake is used whenever I need a terminal alongside other windows...

...but if I need to work exclusively in the terminal for a while, I use Terminator...

Nikola Brežnjak • Feb 28 '18

My /home :)

David Zentgraf • Mar 2 '18

Standard OS X Terminal with slightly tweaked Novel theme.

Andrew Cato • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

Here's mine.

iTerm 2, running oh-my-zsh with the Spaceship theme.

Font is Operator Mono, color scheme is Cobalt2.

Ethan • Mar 6 '18

I use Hyper... 😍😍
Brings me joy every time I use it!
Computer and user names have been changed in the image for privacy of course 😉

Gaurav Chaddha • Mar 6 '18

Here is mine - Terminator on Ubuntu 17.10, using Oh-my-Zsh with spaceship theme, and color scheme generated using pywal.

Pietro Mazzini • Mar 30 '19

Could you tell me how to set separator line color and size?

Gaurav Chaddha • Mar 31 '19

I never customized it. That was the default color in terminator. Sorry mate.

Pietro Mazzini • Mar 31 '19

It's ok, thanks anyway

Salim MAHBOUBI • May 2 '18

Ante-Scriptum: The other windows aren't pushed by the terminal, I just resized Firefox for the screenshot

If you can't read what's in the screenshot:
This is my Guake Terminal, it runs fish, instead of the default bash.
I set it to auto-start on boot-up and always keep it running on the background.
I call it by pressing F12 and it drops down like a video game console, I press F12 and it disappears while still running, without cluttering my already busy window list.
I can set an image as a background, set the background's transparency, choose different themes, open multiple tabs. I love my terminal!

Donald Feury • Aug 13 '20

Looks about the same on my office desktop and my old thinkpad

Terminal is alacritty
Shell is zsh
Color scheme is generated from the wallpaper using pywal
The prompt is starship

Dmitrii Pashutskii • Mar 1 '18

Nothing special, iTerm2 with a few custom preferences.

Dmitrii Pashutskii • Mar 1 '18

I really like this utility

tiff • Mar 5 '18

I have this in a separate iTerm window. Love tiny-care-terminal.

Enzo Lizama Paredes • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

Here is mine, pretty simple but lovely :D

Marcelo Andrade R. • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

gnome-terminal in i3 using zsh with powerline

Dídac • Mar 2 '18

Terminator with Solarized Dark and zsh

Gabe Dunn • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

My custom theme for ZSH. The terminal is gnome-terminal on arch linux + KDE.
You can find it here if you're interested: github.com/redxtech/dotfiles/blob/...

It's fully customize-able by default if there are things that you would like to change about it as well.

Konstantinos Zagoris • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

Nothing fancy

cuzuco2 • Oct 30 '18 • Edited

My machine, the background is animated, you can see it here.
tinypic.com/r/55ot1d/9

Original Video - More videos at TinyPic

And a screenshot here:

Lazar Nikolov • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

Here's mine. I just started working on my graduation thesis project. It's a react app that communicates with a Traccar backend system.

Dustin King • May 26 '18 • Edited

It's the default macOS terminal. The text color is currently not the shade of teal that I like, because I messed it up trying to improve the contrast.

I want to mess around with ANSI colors a bit to offset the program output from the commands and prompts. I also think it would be nice to show the return code if it's nonzero.

dean • Jul 26 '18

Here's mine, I use fish shell and I have a custom startup script to add the fish logo :) config.fish and fish.txt

Bertalan Z. Péter • Mar 6 '18

Here's mine with Termite and Oh-My-ZSH :)

Silwing • Mar 6 '18 • Edited

Inspired by this post I decided to spice up my terminal a bit. I switched to zsh using oh-my-zsh and have added a nice skull emoji to the powerlevel9k theme as well as a few other customizations.

Saurabh Sharma • Mar 7 '18

happy that this post helped you out to find something good.

Darryl Pargeter • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

termite + i3 = <3

Peter Palocz • Mar 6 '18

On my work machine, but looks almost identical to my home mac's terminal. I love this color and the transparency.

Jan De Dobbeleer • Mar 3 '18 • Edited

Running PowerShell in ConEmu. Prompt is oh-my-posh, rolling my own fork of ps-colors with added icons.

Brunno dos Santos • Oct 30 '18

Just the Terminator in a i3wm :)

Ghost • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

Terminal.app + tmux

I use Nord as theme.

Sam Ferree • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

linux crashing the party!

Michelle J Levine • Mar 5 '18

I have a few different terminal themes I use. My current favorite is ducky:

I usually use taller at work because it gives me more git information (branch, time since last commit, state of branch):

I'm not currently using magicalness anywhere, but I switch back to it from time to time. Each time a new window/tab is opened in the terminal the emoji in the last line is randomly swapped out.

other emoji's that might show up:

Jared Kat • Mar 5 '18 • Edited

Using Windows Subsystem for Linux as a local terminal. Normally find myself in an SSH Session to another box though. (Have KiTTY, a PuTTY fork, configured quite similarly). Using a solarized Dark color scheme, using dotfiles in source control (on my github). Right.

Nick Vernij • Mar 2 '18 • Edited

Hyper + Hyperline + ZSH