Make Gnome Terminal Use Colors?

MaTachi · 2011-06-09 18:53:46

Hi!

I browsed through some pages in this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=51818 and saw that many had managed to colorize commands and stuff like that. For an example this image: http://ompldr.org/vOHgzNw, where carnager and freebox got some neat colors. Is this accomplished with an addon to the regular terminal, or is it another terminal?

I'm using Gnome 3 and the standard terminal, and I just want to get some more colors to make it easier to read.

karol · 2011-06-09 18:58:01

You mean https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt ?

MaTachi · 2011-06-09 19:15:44

I just hoped that there was a neat program that would automatically add colors to the commonly used commands. But I won't cry if there isn't one.

Manually writing ridiculous amounts of code just to colorize the outputs isn't really my cup of tea.

karol · 2011-06-09 19:20:15

There are apps that do that automatically, but I think that carnager and freebox are this person's prompt.
What kind of output you want colorized and how?

roygbiv · 2011-06-09 20:05:52

MaTachi wrote:

I'm using Gnome 3 and the standard terminal, and I just want to get some more colors to make it easier to read.

To make the terminal pretty you can add aliases such as

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'

in your ~/.bashrc to get colored output from these commands, and you should also get/steal/make/ yourself a nice PS1 prompt as karol mentioned. If this is too much typing, well then you'll just have to cope with that .

MaTachi · 2011-06-09 22:11:02

karol wrote:

There are apps that do that automatically, but I think that carnager and freebox are this person's prompt.
What kind of output you want colorized and how?

Ah, and the prompt is colored and designed with the Color Bash Prompt stuff. Just looked at the page briefly at first and thought that it was for more than only that. Silly me.

Outputs I want to colorize are for an example from the commands "man pacman", "sudo pacman --help" and "top". Outputs with many lines of text, that currently look pretty boring when they only are in the default text color. What is fun with making beautiful color schemes if we never see the colors in the outputs?

roygbiv wrote:

MaTachi wrote:
I'm using Gnome 3 and the standard terminal, and I just want to get some more colors to make it easier to read.
To make the terminal pretty you can add aliases such as
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
in your ~/.bashrc to get colored output from these commands, and you should also get/steal/make/ yourself a nice PS1 prompt as karol mentioned. If this is too much typing, well then you'll just have to cope with that .

Do you know if there is a list somewhere with more of these kinds of aliases?
And thanks for the brilliant idea to steal a prompt. Found a really nice one that made me love the terminal even more.

karol · 2011-06-09 22:14:38

I suggest htop instead of top.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ma … _man_pages

roygbiv · 2011-06-09 23:17:48

Check out dircolors here and there + pacman-color. I don't use them but you should (I'm a minimalist). Cheers.

MaTachi · 2011-06-10 00:47:06

I'm sorry, but this seems to be too much work for what I'm getting out of it. ^^

I was only looking for something simple to install that would style and make color changes here and there in the most common terminal outputs. I'm not so interested that I want to spend time on configuring every single terminal application to achieve this.

But thank you, you two, for your help!

Stebalien · 2011-06-10 01:03:28

Try cw.

MaTachi · 2011-06-10 11:12:46

Oh, that looks cool! Sadly I can't get it to work. I have installed it and ran these commands in the terminal:

[13:10] daniel@arch ~ $ colorcfg 1
[ cw/color wrapper: user setup script. ]
[ cw library path: /usr/lib/cw ]

* added PATH environmental variable to /home/daniel/.bash_profile
* added PATH environmental variable to /home/daniel/.login
* done. (you must exit your shell for the changes to take effect)

[13:10] daniel@arch ~ $ color on
color wrapping is now: ON

But all outputs are still in the same color as before.

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Make Gnome Terminal Use Colors?

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