Fancy Bash Prompt! Customize Linux Terminal with SYNTH-SHELL

synth-shell improves your terminal experience and productivity through a combination of small bash scripts. I will overview how to customized you're Linux terminal with the beautiful color schemes in the bash shell. We will be focusing on fancy bash prompt in this video.
github.com/andresgongora/synt...
jonasjacek.github.io/colors/
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Backup .bashrc
01:33 - SYNTH-SHELL
02:31 - Installing the Script
05:21 - Customize Linux Terminal
10:30 - Neofetch Tip
11:23 - My Setup
Fancy bash prompt:
- Configurable colors and aesthetics.
- Git statuses (requires pull/push, is dirty, etc.) if inside a directory that is part of a git repository.
- Better separation between user input and command outputs.
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[@andresgongoraYT]

Hi, this is andresgongora, the main developer behind synth-shell. Thanks a lot for sharing my script and helping everyone to a fancy prompt B)

[@priyeshgupta164]

Thank you 😊

[@unregistered8430]

thx man, great works. really appreciate 👍🏻

[@keremidarski]

TechHut, thanks for the help and for the synth-shell, Andres! Can somebody tell me how to get my venv to show up?

[@arpanoverload]

thanks a lot! how do I make the greeter work for zsh?

[@salcolonsc]

Maybe you can make an expanded video on all of the changes you can make for new users.

[@busyrand]

Whoa! Super cool... I'm new to Linux and am perfectly content with Mint. I followed along and added the Neofetch to my terminal and really like it. I always wondered what I was seeing when some of the Linux creators fired up their terminals. I did the command line beautification earlier today following and older video from a Chris Titus Tech playlist for learning the Terminal. The algorithm recommended your video so I ended up hear...

[@magicmanj32]

great tutorial, new to linux and any custom edits are great to personalise, thanks

[@xiaozhu1830]

Stunning and useful tips, thanks a lot mate.

[@devotedme]

Man been searching for customizations like crazy, and after all your's is the most simplest process likke everrr .... Thanks !!!!!!❤❤

[@priyanksaikia5549]

Hey, Does this work for kittu as well? i mean i have the default Gnome Terminal but I also have is the Kitty which needs color change for its host and username....So i just wanted to know whether it is gonna work for kittty as well or not?

[@priyanksaikia5549]

Hey,thanks man .This has been my life saviour..I was nervelessly racking my brains out hard and then I found this video tutorial of yours and I swear I have had the best smile. Also shout out to the developer who made a very good contribution in helping us customising the username and hostname and more...I hope he keeps adding more to his script so that we can change the parameters and make good personalised customisations. Thanks a lot for this.

[@saidxon]

As always, great work. Thanks a lot bro!

[@herranomal]

Cool stuff. Thank you. Quick tip: Always keep one live terminal open when updating shell configurations. Test local and SSH logins before closing the initial shell. If you break your config and cannot log into a new terminal, you can at least restore your backup config from the initial shell. Your config can be broken so bad that the windows manager might not be able to start. At the extreme, you need to start your computer in single user mode to restore your shell. (An app tried to be helpful and broke my .bashrc quite badly one time...)

[@nazibalalam]

Looks really cool man

[@ignaciocaballero1985]

Hi, Thank you so much for the great video

[@sebastiangonzales46]

Thanks!! works great

[@BAdKnownPov1]

you are the first one that worked

[@erlich8414]

thanks man I am also fan of heman skeletor and linux :). But I wanna ask that is it possible to setting background image to bash terminal (ubuntu or other dist) without using another terminal like xfce?

[@marcoaugusto2957]

Hi! great video, one question, when I'm inside a git repo it gets really slow when I type a command in the terminal, it takes a second to reload the "user host pwd" tag, do you know why it could be?

[@mr.o5577]

Hello TechHut i have a little question mate, does this have autosuggestions, highlights like zsh? I was playing around with LSD but it does not work well with zsh so i need something else and this one look simple and nice, thanks in advance for my inquiry.

[@duggrein409]

I have been looking for a way to word my search. So is there a way to keep the banner static. So when the prompts starts to scrolling down the banner stays in view? Not only would I would love this feature but also for making console programs I could feature live data or data relevant to such program. Example would be when using airmon-ng the banner view shows eth,lan,wlan status and lists ipv in use ?

[@MrREALball]

Next level distro hopping: change your distro right in the middle of a tutorial about fancy terminal.

[@Imran-cw7jc]

He used a virtual machine NERD!

[@adamb7460]

@@Imran-cw7jc what even is a virtual machine nErD

[@jasgarsoul]

@@adamb7460 a machine that is virtual *NeRd*

[@Linux43ver-hk6lk]

let's go Brandon , do more videos of editing shell . I really appreciate your videos keep the great job!

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

Wait, last time you are on Artix. Why back to Endeavor?

[@marnixds]

he is a hopper, or a hipster (beard). the constant is that he keeps using linux and preferably rolling distro's despite pop os on one machine if I remember correctly

[@TechHut]

Everything you said is correct, but, on everything, I am not a hipster.

[@olivertirreg]

Hey, how do I tell synth-shell, that I want a new line at the end? I don't like to write my commands in the same line as the bash output.

[@gregoryhorwitz7373]

I'm running Tumbleweed. I've done this saying yes to all prompts but now get this: synth-shell-greeter: 'bc' not installed flahing over and over. what did I do wrong?

[@shalev1142]

Hi, I know its been a year since this video was uploaded but I wanted to ask if you have a video or if you can make a video about how to make a terminal looks like yours, with all those buttons and extra thing that I don't see I have on my ubuntu (ubuntu20.10) Thank You!

[@NBL.2.0]

thank you bro for this theme but i need to change color fo text ?

[@kronov74]

💜💜💜

[@ARKTIKA13]

everytime i open the terminal first thing sow me this bash: prompt: command not found... how can i fix it?

[@aliencreation8744]

cool

[@aleinaarslan391]

Is it possible to display your prompt in a regular font instead of bold?

[@leonpeterson3400]

did you figure out how to get regular text?

[@larsvontrierpung9337]

how do you hide the USER and HOST? it tends to get pretty long. Thanks. and is it possible to make the prompt smaller in %?

[@larsvontrierpung9337]

found it. you remove USER and HOST from format.

[@adantesarcade]

Instead of there being arrows for me its just blocks that highlight the directory and my username, is there anyway to fix this?

[@HadesTimer]

So how you liking Endeavour OS?

[@derricklim355]

Keep up the great vids!!! I installed synth-shell but couldn't get it to work, therefore I uninstalled it by removing the ~/.config/synth-shell/ and /etc/synth-shell/ directories. Bashrc is the original script. However, I recently noticed that the Powerline customization is still applied on my SU prompt. Any idea on how to remove the customization?

[@gardnmi]

rm -d -r .config/synth-shell/ then restart your terminal

[@mr-skorpion]

starship prompt ftw

[@vinaychaurasiya5140]

will it work on fedora 36?

[@samsadrazodi6666]

Hi, Thank you so much for the great video. I followed the steps and was successful on updating the look of my terminal. However I ran into an issue when I restarted my computer. when I opened up terminal again, I get the error message: An error occurred mounting one of your file systems. Please run 'dmesg' for more details. And when I run the dmesg, I get mutiple red lines of: 9pnet_virtio: no channels available for device drvfs And after that: init: (1) ERROR: MountPlan9WithRetry:285: mount drvfs on /mnt/h (cache=mmap,noatime,msize=262144,trans=virtio,aname=drvfs;path=H:\;uid=1000;gid=1000;symlinkroot=/mnt/ I am very new to working with Ubuntu and Terminal and all of this so I would greatly appreciate if anyone helps me with this. I did go into mnt/ directory and I see: c h wsl

[@fiecylick3981]

Very cool but however I get a syntax error after installing it. I don't really know what to do from there at that point except uninstall it lol. It takes a full second for me to even start typing on the terminal because of it which is annoying.

[@liftlinux9421]

Never reliazed that you moved to Endeavour OS

[@killertigergaming6762]

Is there a version of this for zsh?

[@efeliccalebdansou1314]

How define texteffect normal not bold?

[@gregoriodia]

I do not think "cp" stands for copy paste more than "ls" stands for "list stuff". Everybody just calls it copy. cp man page does not use word "paste" once.

[@nithinjp1]

The triangle seperator is not coming in POP OS. Please help.

[@michaelkrailo5725]

This was a pain to configure as the out of box configuration was horrible. At the bottom of the config are the settings for the terminal input colors and it was set to a bold green color. It took me a while to figure out what was going on there. I thought this was just tweaking the shell prompt only, but it affects more than that. It took some time to get the colors set to an acceptable color pallet, but it looks OK now. Here is what I have. For some reason I could not change the text effect for user or host to none or thin, so I'm stuck with bold. The entire background would disappear otherwise. font_color_user="225" background_user="237" texteffect_user="bold" font_color_host="225" background_host="61" texteffect_host="bold" font_color_input="253" background_input="none" texteffect_input="none"

[@shubhanshutomar7940]

Instead of neofetch I use pfetch which actually shows up pretty fast when compared to neofetch on a slower hardware

[@samuelkoramoah3552]

how do I do this on fedora please?

[@stalinjdsouza]

What is better ls and better history?

[@alexgautier5609]

What gnome theme are you using ?

[@stalinjdsouza]

I guess it is vimix gtk theme.

[@tomasglavina4166]

why does my bash not show the machine name? It only shows the user name

[@EmM-ko7mu]

But if you ssh into a box then you'll lose any fancy config

[@shahnonziyad]

I need help! Why my separator character don't have a triangle only have a weird symbol

[@danhiggsbeard]

same. i get rectangles with what I can only describe as an underscore sandwich where the tip of the triangles should be

[@danhiggsbeard]

so I was having the issue with the default terminal in Pop!_OS (konsole). I installed Alacrity, and it works fine in that terminal.

[@YOUdudex]

Im getting the same issue, can't get the symbols/icons to work

[@danhiggsbeard]

@@YOUdudex I only had the issue with the default Gnome terminal. if that's what you're using, download the Alactrity terminal and give it a try.

[@YOUdudex]

@@danhiggsbeard i am currently on terminator. I'll get that a try thanks

[@gopalbaidawar2111]

\u in separator character displays username of OS.

[@birukindrias4308]

how can i uninstall this

[@user-kh6rp6yx1j]

Hello, good.

[@alvarorodriguezgomez8716]

sudo apot install random packages? you can not count on me for that unsafe af

[@nikovask6486]

Mine not working

[@sujeetkumarsinghmath]

does it work with zsh

[@SuperVista64]

for zsh you can use powerlevel10k

[@Basheski]

Maybe the next video can be on the starship promt? 🤓

[@TerrenceHe-ls8td]

second!!!

[@nazibalalam]

First, both for comment and view @Terrence He

[@jarifazmain5170]

@@nazibalalamhello gaymers

[@nazibalalam]

@@jarifazmain5170 hello

[@spacecorp1669]

I'm so cute, I'm just going to keep my ugly mug on the screen the whole time instead of having more room to demonstrate on.

[@miyamotokojiro]

didn't work for xfce

[@lexoleqsolexo]

why you dont like red hat product, you never test or chack fedora or any red hat based distro

[@lexoleqsolexo]

@Thom Giordano why not ?

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

@@lexoleqsolexo because arch is the best distro ever, far better than the others.

[@lexoleqsolexo]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 ok but if you are youtuber who reviews linux, you must review and include red hat based distros to, ok thats what i mean

[@alexunixaxwell3952]

No longer relevant... the rep is password protected and the local download is missing files

[@sor3977]

Just use zsh

[@Fizcakesprite]

didnt work

[@fanningconstruction2050]

This video should be 1337 not 27.

[@bodurrand9506]

dosen't work Im over it

[@kalucardable]

Use just 'cd' instead of 'cd ~'

[@pomojah69]

can someone explain to me why i get this error, please and thank you.... /home/kali/.config/synth-shell/synth-shell-prompt.sh:type:563: bad option: -t

[@zacharywaynewatson8888]

Did you ever figure out a fix for this issue? I’m having the same issue as well.

[@pomojah69]

@@zacharywaynewatson8888man... I couldn't figure it out. But I'm thinking, my zsh shell was interfering with it.