The linux terminal can get boring at times owing to lack of colors & a rigid black background. Hardcore Linux enthusiasts won’t think about the appearance of the terminal but normal users will surely get bored of the monochrome terminal sooner or later. Surprisingly beautifying the terminal is pretty simple.

A frequent worry of Linux newbies is that they will have to learn how to use the terminal, something that is unfamiliar to new users. There is some debate, however, over when you have to use the terminal, if you have to at all. The question is: it is possible to use Linux without using the terminal?

You'll spend plenty of time in the terminal, so why not customize it to suit your tastes? This article steps you through installing and configuring bashish, a terminal prompt theming utility.

ince I'm a noob myself and don't know much about the inner workings of the terminal, I won't shed any light on that subject. But, I would like to share some interesting and useful terminal code I've found. This code was only tested on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, but it will also work on most Mac OSX computers and should work on all Ubuntu releases.

Here is a sample code for using VTE Terminal Emulating widget. Vte terminal widget of GTK can be used to embed a terminal in your GTK program. Vte widget is used in many projects like the Synaptic package manager to shown package installation's terminal output.Also, much of GNOME Terminal's functionality is provided by the VTE widget. Here is how you can start using the widget

Recently I've been hearing more people saying "If Linux is to succeed on the desktop, it needs to bury the terminal". Seriously, what things do users need the terminal for on Linux? Can we maybe debunk some myths right here and now?

A lot of people believe that you have to know how to use the terminal in order to use Linux. Other people claim you never have to touch the terminal at all. In reality, the neither group is quite right.

TermKit by Steven Wittens is a refreshingly beautiful graphic replacement for terminal. If you are wondering, TermKit is not a flashy GUI for Terminal, instead its very much a command line based system made on top of WebKit, the rendering engine used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromium.

Guake - Quake-style terminal for GNOME
A Quake-style terminal is a drop-down terminal which can be shown/hidden just like the console in Quake (and most of the first-person shooter games out there), using the press of a key (~ in Quake). Guake is a terminal application written in GTK which uses the F12 keyboard shortcut by default to show or hide it.