To have a user-friendly terminal, we need to use software that help us with this task, in this article you will learn how to get a beautiful and very customizable terminal on linux, note that it can take a long.
Fonts
To see icons on our terminal with need to use a compatible font, for this porpuse you can use HackNerdFont, to download this font just click here, then unzip it to system folder fonts.
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sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/HackNerdFont
unzip ~/Downloads/HackNerdFonts.zip -d /usr/share/fonts/HackNerdFont
Kitty
For the terminal we’ll use Kitty, this can be download from de official site or with some package manager like apt.
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sudo apt update
sudo apt install kitty -y
Let’s create the config file.
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touch ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf
Now add the following settings to the file.
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# Disable bell
enable_audio_bell no
# Font
font_family HackNerdFont
font_size 12
url_color #61afef
# Keyboard shortcuts
## Move through windows
map ctrl+left neighboring_window left
map ctrl+right neighboring_window right
map ctrl+up neighboring_window up
map ctrl+down neighboring_window down
## Suspend work
map ctrl+shift+z toggle_layout stack
## New window/tab
map ctrl+shift+enter new_window_with_cwd
map ctrl+shift+t new_tab_with_cwd
# Cursor
cursor_shape beam
cursor_beam_thickness 1.8
# Mouse
mouse_hide_wait 3.0
detect_urls yes
# Input
repaint_delay 10
input_delay 3
sync_to_monitor yes
# Tabs
tab_bar_style powerline
inactive_tab_background #e06c75
active_tab_background #98c379
inactive_tab_foreground #000000
# Window
background_opacity 0.95
window_padding_width 4
# Default shell
shell zsh
ZSH
To have a beautiful terminal, we need to use a zshell so let’s download.
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sudo apt install zsh -y
PowerLevel10K
PowerLevel10K makes zsh better