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Terminal Customization is a way to customize the look and feel of your terminal. It is a great way to make your terminal more user friendly.
https://github.com/mrhrifat/terminal-customization

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Terminal Customization is a way to customize the look and feel of your terminal. It is a great way to make your terminal more user friendly.

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## Terminal Customization



Terminal Customization is a way to customize the look and feel of your terminal. It is a great way to make your terminal more user friendly.



## Linux Terminal



Linux Terminal is a terminal emulator for the Linux operating system. It is a powerful terminal emulator that can be used to run commands and programs.



- Default Shell: Bash

- Default Terminal Font: DejaVu Sans Mono



How to Install ZSH



```

sudo apt install zsh

```



**Note:** if it ask you yes type `y`



Change default shell

By default it was set on `bash` shell. Check by



```

echo $0

```



It will return `bash`. Now type & enter the root password.

```

chsh

```

After seeing Changing the new shell for `username`. Enter the new value, or press ENTER for default

```

Login Shell [/bin/bash]:/bin/zsh

```

Now do reboot your system manually or from command line



```

sudo reboot

```



Now login again & open the terminal. You will see the new shell & some text.

Type one of the keys in parenthesis --- Press 2

Check again



```

echo $0

```



This time it will return `zsh`.



Install Oh My Zsh

The below command will work if your system have already installed this package.



- Curl

- Git

- Zsh



```

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

```



If curl is not installed, then you can install it by



```

sudo apt install curl

```



If git is not installed, then you can install it by



```

sudo apt install git

```



If zsh is not installed, then you can install it by



```

sudo apt install zsh

```



After successful installation, you will see the following message



```

Oh My Zsh! is now installed.

```



Theme of Oh My Zsh

You can change the theme of Oh My Zsh by



```

cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes

```



I have used the following theme Powerlevel10K



```

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

```



Change font of the terminal

To change the font if your system has already installed font manager, then you can change the font easily.



Download the font

Open the font and install it

Change font in linux terminal

Preferences -> Profile (Unnamed/Anything) -> Text -> Text Appearance -> Check the box "Custom font"

Click on the font name and select the `MesloLGS NF` font.

Change the font size to `10` or any other size.

Click Select.

Exit the terminal and open it again.



If you don't want or don't have installed font manager, then you can install

Donwload the fonts

Open the folder and select all the fonts Ctrl+H

Now all the hidden files will be shown.



Click Ctrl+Shift+N & named the folder .fonts

Enter the directory & paste all the fonts

Go back to the Home directory & again click Ctrl+H



Now if your system have to be installed Gnome Tweak Tool, if it is installed then open the terminal & type



```

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

```



Now on your application, you will be able to see Tweak & Tweak Tool.

Click to open Tweak Tool.

Click on the "Fonts" tab.

Click on the "Monospace Text" tab.

Select the font MesloLGS NF.

Click on the Select

Close the Terminal & open it again.



Customize the Powerlevel10K theme

Now you can customize the theme by editing the file `.zshrc`

From the root directory of your system, open the file `.zshrc` by



```

vim ~/.zshrc

```



```

gedit ~/.zshrc

```



You can see on line 11 or other line a text like this



```

ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

```



Change the value to `powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k`



```

ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"

```



Now restart your terminal.



Customize the Powerlevel10K theme



- Does this look like a diamond (rotated square)

  y

- Does this look like a lock

  y

- Does this look like a Debian logo (swirl/spiral)

  y

- Does all these icons fit between the crosses?

  y

- Prompt Style

  recommended 3 (Rainbow)

- Character Set

  recommended 1 (Unicode)

- Show current time

  recommended 1 (No)

- Prompt Separator

  recommended 1 (Angled)

- Prompt Heads

  recommended 1 (Sharp)

- Prompt Tails

  recommended 1 (Flat)

- Prompt Height

  recommended 1 (One Line)

- Prompt Connection

  recommended 1 (Disconnected)

- Prompt Frame

  recommended 1 (No Frame)

- Prompt Spacing

  recommended 2 (Sparse)

- Icons

  recommended 2 (Many Icons)

- Prompt Flow

  recommended 1 (Concise)

- Enable Transient Prompt

  recommended n (No)

- Instant Prompt Mode

  recommended 1 (Verbose)

- Apply Changes to ~/.zshrc

  y



Customize the Powerlevel10K theme



```

p10k configure

```



Restart your terminal.



```

exec zsh

```



https://ohmyz.sh/

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k



To show username on terminal

Go to root directory

Open the ~/.p10k.zsh file by



```

vim ~/.p10k.zsh gedit ~/.p10k.zsh

```



Press Ctrl+F & type



```

typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_CONTEXT_{DEFAULT,SUDO}_{CONTENT,VISUAL_IDENTIFIER}_EXPANSION=

```



You will able to see



```

# Don't show context unless running with privileges or in SSH.

# Tip: Remove the next line to always show context.

typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_CONTEXT_{DEFAULT,SUDO}_{CONTENT,VISUAL_IDENTIFIER}_EXPANSION=

```



Changes to



```

# Don't show context unless running with privileges or in SSH.

# Tip: Remove the next line to always show context.

# typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_CONTEXT_{DEFAULT,SUDO}_{CONTENT,VISUAL_IDENTIFIER}_EXPANSION=

```



Press Ctrl+S. Exit the file.

Now restart the terminal.

You can see the username on the top right corner.



## How To Contribute



1. Fork this repository

2. Clone on your local environment with IDE.

3. Makes your changes to code.

4. Commit your changes.

5. Create a new pull request

6. Wait for the pull request to be merged.



**Note:** If you want to do a major changes than first create an Issue.



## License



This project is licensed under [GPL-3.0](https://github.com/mrhrifat/terminal-customization/blob/master/LICENSE.md).