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Shiny, Happy Linux OS Terminals With Bashish

Written By
JK
Juliet Kemp
Apr 12, 2010

“In the mood for a bit more color in your life? Check out
Bashish to try out themes for your terminal.

“I installed from source due to problems with the Debian
repository; if doing this, note that you’ll need to install the
dialog package manually via apt-get. Once you’ve run ./configure;
make; sudo make install, run bashish to get things set up properly.
Then restart a terminal to get the default theme.

“bashish list shows the theme list and bashish THEMENAME
switches theme. Try elite for a multi-line prompt, moan for
something more basic, or flowerpower for a floral look!”


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Juliet Kemp

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