I put a dozen aliases in bash_aliases and call it a day. If I find myself in the terminal I don’t want to be hamstrung with some unique configs that nobody can help me with and I can’t remember making.

I set up a couple profiles with different colored backgrounds so that I can easily visually distinguish terminal windows when I have several open at once. For example, I usually switch the profile to one with a red background when I ssh into a server to help avoid confusion about which system I’m running commands on. I also cranked up the font size a bit in all profiles to make it easier for me to read.

I mostly learned from some of the terminal customization which came stock with Manjaro when I was first learning Linux. So when I made the jump to Arch, I customized my terminal with fsh with the powerlevel10k theme and text highlighting. I also modified some of the default text colors to a green color to evoke green phosphor CRT terminals.

I use Fish as my shell. It’s got some really nice convenience features, without needing customization, which I find useful. If I’m working in a VM or some server for a bit longer, I’ll often just install the fish package and have my normal level of (good) usability.
Downside is that Fish uses somewhat different syntax than Bash, so I can’t just copy-paste more complex commands into there. But yeah, then you’ll see me run bash, then the complex command in there, and then I’ll exit back out of there.

For the shell prompt, I’m using Starship with a bit of a custom theme, based on their Gruvbox Rainbow preset:

So, what it shows there is:

• the exit-code, if it’s non-zero
• the duration how the long the command took, if it’s longer than a few seconds
• the timestamp when that command finished
• the path where I’m in
• the Git branch and whether I’ve got changes that are uncommitted, stashed etc., if I’m in a directory with Git repo
• the toolchain in the repo that I’m in

I also use light theme in the terminal. Sue me. 🙃

I don’t have a lot of customization, just a few tweaks to make things a little more pleasing to me.

I’m a bash guy, and I like the Dracula theme, I currently use gnome and gnome terminal with Dracula, but soon plan to try out Hyprland and Sway.

My command prompt customization is also minimal,

Outside of those visuals, the biggest customization is that I use zoxide for directory navigation instead of cd (I have the command aliased to zd).

edit: spelling

How do y’all customize your terminals?

I only use one terminal (Alacritty). I do nothing more than just setting size, font, and colors. I basically took the config with me when I migrated from kittie to Alacritty. My kittie config mainly came from when I initially setting up xterm and later urxvt.

I love consistency and minimalism when it comes to setting up any kind of software. So my terminal configuration is basically the same since ca. 2007.

[window]
dimensions = { columns = 120, lines = 32 }
resize_increments = true # gets ignored, though

[font]
size = 14
normal = { family = 'DejaVu Sans Mono', style = 'Regular' }

[colors.primary]
foreground = '#d3d7cf'
background = '#2e3436'

[colors.normal]
black   = '#2e2e34'
red     = '#cc0000'
green   = '#4e9a06'
yellow  = '#c4a000'
blue    = '#3465a4'
magenta = '#75507b'
cyan    = '#06989a'
white   = '#d3d7cf'

[colors.bright]
black    = '#555753'
red      = '#ef2929'
green    = '#8ae234'
yellow   = '#fce94f'
blue     = '#729fcf'
magenta  = '#ad7fa8'
cyan     = '#34e2e2'
white    = '#eeeeec'

Just defaults. Mostly cus I have no idea what I’m doing still

I try to keep everything minimalistic, so I don’t have to customize it too much. For example, this is my terminal:

The most important thing for me is the font, since I also use a terminal-based editor for programming. The color palette is also minimal (I made it), I don’t like things that are too colorful. I use bash as my shell, and st as my terminal.

I dont, I keep it in the black void it deserves to be in

I want it gone as fast as I had to open it