How can I make my minimal command line Arch Linux look awesome?

chihuyu · 2019-09-07 01:04:15

Hello, community friends:

I have just installed Arch Linux with the minimal command line interface on my VMware workstation.

Now everything looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/N1dU1gt.png

But I want everything to look like the following with two requirements:

1. No desktop environment installed

2. My mouse cursor can be seen and select, copy and paste.

https://i.imgur.com/L5OViAy.png

Is that possible? How to make that happen?
Thanks.

Last edited by jasonwryan (2019-09-07 01:11:19)

jasonwryan · 2019-09-07 01:13:51

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

Read up on eye candy: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Eye_candy and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ge … pose_mouse.

For copy and paste in the TTY, use tmux or screen.

Trilby · 2019-09-07 01:28:53

If you want those specific colors in the terminal, that looks like a solarized dark theme. You can specify tty colors with `setvtrgb` but you may prefer the flexibility of a framebuffer terminal emulator like fbterm or yaft. Then set up colors for whatever utilities you use:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … in_console

Last edited by Trilby (2019-09-07 01:29:31)

bilabila · 2019-09-09 08:40:22

In tty
1. For color, use pywal
2. For fonts, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Linux_console
3. For mouse cursor, I don't know, but keyboard can be used to nagivation and copy paste

Head_on_a_Stick · 2019-09-09 14:10:03

chihuyu wrote:

I want everything to look like the following

Add this line to ~/.bashrc (or whichever configuration file is appropriate for your preferred interactive shell):

alias ls='ls --color'

Perhaps add another line for grep as well.

chihuyu wrote:

My mouse cursor can be seen and select, copy and paste.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gpm/

seth · 2019-09-09 15:25:05

https://terminal.sexy/

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How can I make my minimal command line Arch Linux look awesome?

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