using iTerm color schmes with gnome-terminal.

2012-08-29 1 min read Fedora
the OS X Lion install key
the OS X Lion install key (Photo credit: blakespot)

Found this great page and thought of sharing this:

http://www.sharms.org/blog/2012/08/using-iterm-2-themes-with-gnome-terminal/

When using this, you will need to install :

https://github.com/caseyhoward/nokogiri-plist

and when you install this, you will find that the permissions for the files are not appropriately set, so go to your ruby gems directory or the installation directory for nokogiri-plist and change the permissions.

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sakura – Reaaly good terminal with very few dependencies.

2011-03-30 1 min read Fedora Uncategorized

I was searching for something in the Fedora repos and found a really good terminal, sakura. Its very much like Gnome-terminal. I did not find much difference other than using less memory.

To install:

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and the details of the package:

Name        : sakura
Arch : i686
Version     : 2.3.8
Release     : 1.fc14
Size        : 137 k
Repo        : installed
From repo   : fedora
Summary     : Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE
URL : http://pleyades.net/david/sakura.php
License     : GPLv2
Description : Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It’s a terminal emulator
with few dependencies, so you don’t need a full GNOME desktop installed to
have a decent terminal emulator.
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Setting the title of PuTTY window.

2010-02-04 1 min read GNOME Linux

Setting the title for PuTTY window is quite a simple trick. The trick is to set the PS1 with a escape sequence. When the PS1 is set with the escape sequence the variable will set the title window also. And not only can this trick be used in PuTTY but even on gnome-terminal to set the title dynamically. You can use this in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file to do it whenever you are starting the terminal.

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change the terminal title dynamically in X11

2010-01-09 1 min read Bash GNOME Linux

I was actually looking for this for quite sometime. Some years back in my bashrc was the proper setting for setting the terminal title when I did a cd, and I had completely forgotten how to do it. So today I searched quite a few commands the environment variables for doing the same and found it again.

Here it is (Just put this in your bashrc or bash_profile):

export PROMPT_COMMAND=&#8217;echo -ne &#8221;\033]0;`pwd`&#8221;; echo -ne &#8221;\007&#8221;&#8217;

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