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How To Create Cool Effects in a Terminal

Posted by tripwire45 on · 2 comments
http://www.wiredwriter.net; By James Pyles
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Ubuntu can be configured and managed from the desktop for the most part but occasionally, you may still have to open a terminal session to get some work done.

I've spent a fair amount of time working with Debian so I'm used to opening a terminal, switching to root and typing apt-get update. One thing about the default terminal though is that it's boring. Just black text on a white background. Fortunately, you don't have to live with it if you don't want to. It's easy to customize the terminal's appearance to suit your fancy.

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Comments (2)

User discovers transparency, and introduces a terminal with 20% less visible letters.
Now that's just ignorant. If you don't like transparencies that's your choice, but, you could just as easily say 'terminal is 20% less likely to be used because, in stock form, it's butt ugly'...

I think it's kinda quaint that gnome has gotten around to adding this feature, even though it's 2-3 years after KDE did it.

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