My Custom Ubuntu Linux Terminal with Themes and Plug-ins 💻

I usually get comments on my videos about what terminal I use, so here's a video where I show you my teminal setup (theme and plugins) on Ubuntu Linux.
This can also work for Mac as well if you use iTerm. You might need to modify some of the shell scripts. I don't use Windows as much so I don't have a similar theme for it yet.
💻 Code: github.com/pixegami/terminal-...

[@pixegami]

If you want to reset back to the old terminal (since several people have asked): There's two main modifications being done to the terminal. The terminal theme, and the shell itself. For the theme, here's a thread I found on the internet on how to reset it to the default: askubuntu.com/questions/14487/how-to-reset-the-terminal-properties-and-preferences For the terminal shell itself, we actually installed a new terminal (zsh) alongside the default bash. Bash itself wasn't removed, but we just set the default shell to `zsh`. Here is a thread on how to uninstall zsh and default back to bash: askubuntu.com/questions/958120/remove-zsh-from-ubuntu-16-04

[@casper42069]

Is there a way to change the colors of the theme ?

[@abzs5811]

This should have been in the rass video Fool😂

[@bourasabdennour8369]

Not working

[@wolfisraging]

wow dude, your channel is just golden, keep it up, seriously you've got very unique style and your content quality is freaking goood

[@pixegami]

Thanks a ton!

[@YasserCherfaoui]

The shortest clearest explanation I have ever seen xD, thanks a lot man!

[@theblowupdollsmusic]

Nice setup! Thank you for sharing. I cant wait to try this and Synth-Shell

[@pixegami]

I heard "warp" was really good too, but that's on Mac OS so I have to wait until I get my Mac... Maybe next year.

[@theblowupdollsmusic]

@@pixegami You could probably install a MacOS virtual machine or a hackentosh to try things!

[@Montpelier-sama]

I was just looking for some alternatives to bash and found this video. After installing it, I am liking it so much that I paired this with my gtk-master and Dracula themes. Great stuff. Maybe I'll try those themes of your and switch from time to time depending on my mood.

[@zlet]

This is the nicest terminal I've seen so far.

[@staringintotheabyss1769]

It looks awesome,thanks for the tutorial

[@julio-dev]

Tried this today on my fresh installation of Zorin OS, it's pretty beautiful and useful! Thanks for sharing

[@pixegami]

Great to hear!

[@evoncodes]

Great guide. Thank you so much!

[@tfysekis]

Thanks for your work.Its really helpful!

[@pixegami]

You are welcome!

[@Invincible_Ron]

Thank you brother, appreciate your help

[@agamjotsingh7371]

Thanks bro, it worked. Nice approach for the tutorial, to the point. Subscribed.

[@pixegami]

Thanks for the sub!

[@GooniesDev]

Thanks for you video, actually I use ubuntu (after MacOS) and this setup its great. Thanks for share bro

[@proxyvert8976]

Nice, I even don't have to ask for your cool terminal theme.

[@maurolimaok]

Very nice tutorial. Thanks!

[@pixegami]

You're welcome!

[@balajik2982]

worked man, Thanks & subscribed

[@OzoneBhattarai-lm2es]

this was pretty good! ty.

[@carshoesch]

Thanks for the Video!

[@omaraymanbakr3664]

Thank you for sharing

[@DefCantGame]

for some running the powerline portion may have to modify the --user portion

[@Sam-ig9bj]

Thanks, it looks great

[@pixegami]

Glad you like it!

[@Mar-kb8yq]

Hi great video. Just one thing, i want to show the directory path in line of base/pixegami/main ecc.. how can i do that? ty

[@spacemike800]

not sure what ive seen but i subscr. cos i love it )))))

[@virtulosity]

Awesome! thanks

[@ayoubhanaf1604]

i wanna change the font style how can i do that ? thanks for advance 🙂

[@shubhamnagure7654]

chsh: user 'my user name' does not exist in /etc/passwd how to resolve this? I'm login using ldap auth hence my user name is not present in /etc/passwd

[@XBEAST321]

Thank You So Much

[@mudalad1215]

what do i do if i want to use something like a banner that was in my bash

[@minhtuphan3939]

How do you change color of the folder path? It is hard to see

[@jordancullen4135]

ran the first code then got this : E: Package 'vim' has no installation candidate. I tired to get the vim command installed but i could figure it out. Anyone else have this issue?

[@jonasmorais2091]

very good 👍

[@Daniel-uv2gu]

Great video, thanks 😅

[@pixegami]

Glad you liked it!

[@mrsnoky]

why does it only work with root user for other users it goes back to normal terminal

[@Bathi666]

Thanks heaps mate!

[@pixegami]

No problem 👍

[@pablowbk]

great one, thanks a lot!

[@kapsgurjar8821]

you did that hows your experiance

[@pablowbk]

@@kapsgurjar8821 all good so far. Maybe current path could be a bit brighter

[@pixegami]

No worries!

[@BeKa-om8cv]

When he says reboot your system, really reboot it, not just log off/on. I only logged off and on and again and I had the issue that a new terminal sessions would take like 30sec to open, this did not occur anymore after a reboot.

[@arditzubaku4964]

How to change the code so it shows the current working directory path the same way it does when inside a git directory and not above ?

[@pixegami]

Probably this: github.com/pixegami/terminal-profile/blob/main/configs/pixegami-agnoster.zsh-theme#L165 Although lately I've switched to starship (starship.rs/) for my prompts.

[@maxakhet]

Thanks for the video it was amazing . I'd like to know how to change the font-size please . Thanks for advance

[@ToGoMania19]

Thanks!

[@pixegami]

Wow, thank you for the tip. I really appreciate it!

[@juanantoniovivaldy]

is it possible to change the shortcut assign autocompletion from right arrow to tab

[@pixegami]

Doesn't look like it, but here's the documentation for the autocomplete for reference: github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

[@LinuxLoader1287]

Nice

[@codenerd7823]

here's the fix you need to run the second command first, so that zsh can be installed after that run the first command, and hopefully you are good to go

[@Eric.Abraham]

Nice video. What if I want to rollback to default? Can you give me the commands? I want to Install this so just in case I mess up.

[@DatNguyen-qx4kl]

hơw can i remove the directory and display it with the username and git branch? And how to set the cursor to the next line instead of the same line?

[@pixegami]

You have to modify this theme file: github.com/pixegami/terminal-profile/blob/main/configs/pixegami-agnoster.zsh-theme It uses bash scripting, so you'll need to understand that first. But once you modify the file and replace it in the `zsh` directory, it should do whatever you want it to.

[@baranaldemir5570]

First, thank you for sharing these. And I want to ask where the aliases are stored in this configuration? I can't find the aliases. I need to change some of them. I checked both “.bashrc” and “.zshrc”. Where can I find them?

[@baranaldemir5570]

I found my answer. They are in different folders, but I guess all of them are under ./oh-my-zsh/ folder.

[@pixegami]

Glad you found the answer! Thanks for sharing it so other people can see as well.

[@baranaldemir5570]

@@pixegami thanks. Do you use conda ? Because activating conda environments results in not so pretty display.

[@natanclimaco]

@@baranaldemir5570 can you fix the conda issue? i have the same problem :\

[@lucasnoteanu8595]

pls how to go back to the main terminal !!

[@OluchukwuChinedu-dk2fl]

I followed the video and after running the scripts as you did, it worked but the icons are not rendering. Keep in mind that I did this on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS terminal which I'm running on a Windows machine with WSL. How can I fix that?

[@pixegami]

Hmm, the icons are usually part of the font. If the fonts in the video doesn't work, can you try something from here? www.nerdfonts.com/

[@beyone9016]

Hi. Thank you for the effort and the good job. Is there a version for alpine linux xfce terminal run as root?

[@pixegami]

Ah sorry, I have one for Mac, but not for Apline. But I don't think it would be too different from the Ubuntu one.

[@user-zn2oo2co3d]

how to setup default terminal?

[@pancerny565]

im not sure where i have made mistake but when typed vim following your instructions i have no graphical bar at all and cant get out of vim window

[@skellderknowledge3621]

this is actually a meme , i mean how to get out of vim , anyway just write :q

[@OrangeTrM]

Would this work for Ubuntu-Server? I just got into setting up a home server and id really love to have a more colorful/functional terminal!

[@pixegami]

Yeah, I think when you SSH into your Ubuntu Server, all the terminal settings and themes will just render in your SSH terminal like any other terminal (I know because I applied this theme to a headless server too), so it should work :)

[@drakata27]

I had a problem with installing the font. I dont have any arrows and when i open vim doesnt have the style at the bottom. Any tips mate?

[@akashkunwar]

same for me too

[@pixegami]

Hmm, recently I've been getting my fonts from www.nerdfonts.com/ instead. Do these work with your setup?

[@luciano2000]

Nice ! Can I use it for fedora? (change from apt to dnf of course)

[@ELECTROMIST]

sadly fedora was unable to detect my wifi drivers and also gave me a hard time starting windows so i had to delete it. when i buy another laptop, will install ffedora fs.

[@mustafayldrm80]

Perfect! I was boring ubuntu terminal, i am feeling reborn

[@pixegami]

Thanks!

[@thomasluk4319]

its a zsh shell instead of bash... still the color theme look very nice, do u reference any themes? or where can I get the color hex code

[@pixegami]

The color theme is in the repo was well here: github.com/pixegami/terminal-profile/blob/main/configs/terminal_profile.dconf

[@thomasluk4319]

@@pixegami thanks. the use of dconf is nice!

[@AshishKumar-ft6wv]

Thanks man

[@pixegami]

You're welcome!

[@authenticationproblem7868]

how to set this thing in arch.....

[@Edgar-pu1lc]

Hi, the thing is that after installation, commands are not executed through the enter key, but ctrl + j, how can I change to enter ?

[@pixegami]

Hmm, I don't see that behaviour when I follow the scripts/installation. Is it something specific to your set-up?

[@Edgar-pu1lc]

@@pixegami I don't know, I did everything just like in the video, I don't understand why it works like that

[@DeltaSignIsNotAvailable]

Hey this is a nice terminal! I have one small issue though. When I run ViM the arrows don't show up and instead [No Name] shows up is there any fix for this?

[@pixegami]

Hmm, sounds like it could be a font issue. I think I had to use a Powerline font for VIM glyphs to show up correctly: github.com/powerline/fonts You might also want to look at the official Powerline for VIM instructions: github.com/powerline/powerline

[@sikander0355]

same issue. did u fix it???

[@DeltaSignIsNotAvailable]

@@sikander0355 I'm gonna try it again in Mint (I don't know if it has anything to do with the issue) and check if it works with what pixiegami said in the reply above, I'll keep you updated

[@gui-wd1gg]

@@DeltaSignIsNotAvailable same issue, do you guys find any solution?

[@gui-wd1gg]

@@sikander0355 did you find any solution?

[@michal.nalevanko]

I am using Linux Mint and everything works great so far. Thank you very much! There is only one issue left. Whenever I open a new terminal window, the font size is really big (compared to what I used so far). I know that I can manually "zoom in" or "zoom out" but it is really annoying to do everytime I open a new terminal window. I tried to change the font size in Settings but had no luck. Whenever I lower the font size, the "Apply" button remains disabled. Any suggestion how to make the terminal window font size permanently lower (not 14, but 10 instead)? Thanks a lot!

[@sudeeplun]

you have to choose other available font and set font size as you want..

[@pixegami]

The terminal should respect your font size setting in the profile settings and I don't think anything in my theme or zsh config files should override the terminal's preferred font size - so I'd recommend looking into that. I don't know if this is the same platform you are using, but it'll probably be similar to this: linuxopsys.com/topics/change-terminal-font-size-in-ubuntu

[@graciousjames8241]

goto preferences in the terminal taskbar itself and change custom font in the profile section

[@Anonymous-xo2tv]

I also faced same issue, Uncheck custom font that worked for me

[@MinatoUchiiha]

if I use exit command the shell back to the old bash how to fix this

[@pixegami]

If you start a new terminal, it should use the command to start the ZSH shell again. In any case, the ZSH is just another program that can be started from your kernel, so you should have an override somewhere to be able to set it as your default shell.

[@GeorgeFlorian12]

How can we make the font smaller after running all the scripts ?

[@devonmclean4337]

any answer to this??

[@pixegami]

The font size setting should be part of the profile setting. If you are using Ubuntu, you just change the default size in the profile like any other theme: linuxhint.com/change-terminal-font-size-ubuntu/ Of course, you can use the traditional shortcuts to "zoom" the text as well (Ctrl + and Ctrl - I think?)

[@user-hz6ed9ht4l]

it says that I don't have authentication

[@danielartamonov2549]

On ubuntu 23 fonts are little broken (

[@juanantoniovivaldy]

how can i hide that current working directory on top the display? i think that bothering me sometimes, thanks

[@pixegami]

I think I put that into the "prompt head". It's useful for me because sometimes I want to copy/see the directory I'm in when I'm running a script. If you want to remove it, I think you have to look into modifying the lines around here: github.com/pixegami/terminal-profile/blob/main/configs/pixegami-agnoster.zsh-theme#L189-L197

[@juanantoniovivaldy]

@@pixegami Thanks.. it worked for me

[@matej_skalickyy]

I love the design, but I want to change the colors of the theme. How can I do it?

[@pixegami]

You should be able to edit the color theme directly in the terminal app (profile) :)

[@praiseakinnodi6521]

this doesnt work on mac OS terminal I get this error: Unable to locate a Java Runtime that supports apt.

[@pixegami]

Unfortunately, these instructions are for Ubuntu Linux. I don't have a Mac OS machine, so I haven't been able to test/fix it for that yet.

[@maglorluinwe]

Hello hello. I do not know if anyone else got this issue, but after cloning the repository and running the command "./install_powerline.sh" I'm getting the following output: ++ sudo apt install -y python3-pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... done Package python3-pip is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source So, Python3 is installed (running "python3 --version" outputs "Python 3.10.12") and if I try to install it without the script, it also fails on Ubuntu. Also, doing "pip3 install --user powerline-status" fails because pip3 command is not being found (as pip3 is not installed and cannot be installed) I've googled, then, for how to install it properly and only found people mentioning that "sudo apt install python3-pip" is the way to go, but it fails... please help

[@expressivebd]

Install the powerline font separately

[@tianglampu19]

@@expressivebd how?

[@expressivebd]

@@tianglampu19 sudo apt install powerline

[@tahaslime]

pretty bizzare, the last command, the theme command, yields a not found file error. Although the file exist in my directory.

[@picardftw1313]

same.

[@Ishaan_Garud]

The ./install_powerline (something) does nothing for me :(

[@viniciuskoncicoski5462]

Add --break-system-packages at the end of line 6

[@chrisk8703]

Nice theme. Is there something similar on Windows?

[@pixegami]

I only used Windows for a short time, but I did attempt to create a similar terminal/theme set up with it (I didn't save it though). But yes, it's possible to build it yourself.

[@chrisk8703]

@@pixegami thanks for your answer. I found out now that with Oh My Posh prompt engine the CLI can be modified on Windows easily.

[@AbdulWahab-mp4vn]

how to uninstall it ?

[@mazenyasser5303]

Windows terminal pls

[@shazidhossain2181]

thanks

[@pixegami]

You're welcome!

[@fakhrulhilal]

Does it work for ubuntu server (which has no GUI at all)?

[@pixegami]

Hm, I think it should - but if it has no GUI you wouldn't be able to see it anyway? :P Unless you mean when you SSH in. Yes, it does work with headless servers because if you SSH in, it's also what your terminal uses (e.g. at least the bash part). The color scheme is inherited from the terminal GUI you use.

[@Investmentpunk1]

Does that work on WSL2 on windows 11 ?

[@pixegami]

I don't think so - the shell (zsh) probably would, but I don't know if the color themes would work. I only tested this on Ubuntu. When I work on Windows machine, I just use the native Windows terminal for most things (which I customise using Starship for the prompt): apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/windows-terminal/9N0DX20HK701?hl=en-au&gl=au&rtc=1

[@Investmentpunk1]

@@pixegami thank you

[@alyan8952]

Could you please inform me of the type of terminal you are using?

[@pixegami]

This is just the built-in terminal in Ubuntu. But you can also get this on Mac using ITerm 2, or on Windows using the "Windows Terminal" app.

[@hakal_]

How can I get all the things except the arrows?

[@pixegami]

The prompt (including special characters like arrows) are configured in this file, so you can look for them and edit/update them here: github.com/pixegami/terminal-profile/blob/main/configs/pixegami-agnoster.zsh-theme You might need a font that can display all unicode characters. A "Powerline" font or NerdFont should work: www.nerdfonts.com/

[@nithinshajivalavil706]

The virtual environment name is not showing in this Theme. Can you help me?

[@pixegami]

Oh, I think it's because I modified it to work with Conda environments (since that's the environment manager I use). But you have can a look at editing this part here: github.com/pixegami/terminal-profile/blob/main/configs/pixegami-agnoster.zsh-theme#L168

[@nithinshajivalavil706]

@@pixegami I have fixed it by adding ``` PS1="$_OLD_VIRTUAL_PS1" _OLD_RPROMPT="$RPROMPT" RPROMPT="%{${fg_bold[white]}%}(%{${fg[green]}%}`basename \"$VIRTUAL_ENV\"`%{${fg_bold[white]}%})%{${reset_color}%} $RPROMPT" ``` in 'postactivate' and ``` RPROMPT="$_OLD_RPROMPT" ``` in 'postdeactivate'. I will also check the part which you mentioned in the reply. Thanks.

[@rafelquetglascoll4968]

Same issue here. I’ve added these lines where the author mentions. So far, it works. if [[ -n $VIRTUAL_ENV ]]; then prompt_segment black default $(basename "$VIRTUAL_ENV") fi If you already have it installed, you can edit the source file directly from here. vim ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/pixegami-agnoster.zsh-theme

[@matteomascherin6804]

Very cool video! I was just wondering why I should install vim? It's not a problem of memory space, I just don't understand why it is necessary for the installation. Thanks for anyone will help me figure out this thing😊

[@pixegami]

You don't need to install it if you don't want to :)

[@emcidee]

btw how to get back to old terminal pls

[@pixegami]

I've added instructions as a pinned comment, and also updated the GitHub ReadMe: There's two main modifications being done to the terminal. The terminal theme, and the shell itself. For the theme, here's a thread I found on the internet on how to reset it to the default: askubuntu.com/questions/14487/how-to-reset-the-terminal-properties-and-preferences For the terminal shell itself, we actually installed a new terminal (zsh) alongside the default bash. Bash itself wasn't removed, but we just set the default shell to `zsh`. Here is a thread on how to uninstall zsh and default back to bash: askubuntu.com/questions/958120/remove-zsh-from-ubuntu-16-04

[@emcidee]

@@pixegami thank you pixegami I loved your terminal theme I will use it again later

[@zouhairsahtout9682]

What about Fedora, it doesn't work for me, because might be those filles include some apt command which include only the Ubuntu Hope anyone here hellp

[@pixegami]

Sorry, I only tested this on Ubuntu :(

[@user-cx3vb9zm2w]

How to get a custom color for our terminal

[@pixegami]

This should just work with the terminal's built-in color profile if you go to "Edit > Profile Preferences > Colors" (for Ubuntu terminal).

[@user-cx3vb9zm2w]

@@pixegami thanks 👍

[@CurtisCODM]

How to go back to default?

[@pixegami]

Run a command to change the default shell back to bash (if that's what you're using). You can reset the profile like this: askubuntu.com/questions/14487/how-to-reset-the-terminal-properties-and-preferences And you can uninstall OhMyZSH here: github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh#uninstalling-oh-my-zsh

[@Simple_OG]

I use arch btw

[@pramodsargar4251]

how to undo this terminal setting ?

[@pixegami]

The instructions should be in the video description and the GitHub README.

[@masud_talukdar]

zsh: command not found: conda

[@danielochoja8507]

Thanks a lot, this doesn't support python virtual environment though

[@pixegami]

Hmm, good point. I use Conda environments. You might be able to modify the zshrc or the theme file to be able to show Python environments.

[@tpag20]

oh you are very handsome

[@kyawwinaung5088]

how to uninstall. I have error.

[@congdatt]

I have error tooo :(

[@ucnguyenmanh8348]

this is very nice, can i change the background color theme

[@Anonymous-xo2tv]

Try to make it transparent from preferences

[@gh0stofverdansk]

2:06 and now i cant exit

[@pixegami]

Haha classic. Press q to exit VIM. stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-vim

[@thedevelopermind]

DId'nt work bro, i did it 100%.

[@pixegami]

I might have to review the steps. I've only tested it on Linux (Ubuntu), so if you are using Mac or Windows, it might not work without some tweaks. I'll do a Mac version soon when I buy a Mac for myself.

[@thedevelopermind]

@@pixegami i tried ubuntu 22.04, but i newbie in linux ecosystem

[@AkashPatel-tt6pi]

yeah brother , i am also using 22.04 and its also not working for me

[@16aniketdutta58]

After doing this the entire OS crashed!!!

[@pixegami]

After which step? None of the steps in there should be sufficient to crash your OS... What error do you see?

[@AbrarFahimTonoyMondal]

okey, Now how to remove it !! xD

[@leonardomoreiralouzas3995]

Now my terminal looks great! But I encountered a problem: I often use VENV for my python projects but I can't see the venv indicator after using 'source venv/bin/activate'. Is there a way to make it visible? @pixegami Thanks.

[@stevenha-mv8eo]

I am having this issue as well. Do you know the solution?

[@impro9118]

Also looking for a solution

[@congomigue9072]

Here is the solution, after you source your venv correctly try running the command: echo $PS1 in your terminal to display the current prompt configuration. if it displays the venv like this -> (venv) that should tell you that you are in your virtual environment, which is ok, but if it shows some varibales without it, then you have not sourced or activated your venv. I hope it helps someone. I think @pixegami should look into it so that it does display on the screen as currently it is conflicting with the display of venv on the screen as it usually does on the terminal. Otherwise its a great customization. simple and easy to install.

[@Shivam_3567]

How can we change username color in ubuntu can we? (Like shivam@ubuntu: $) green to blue?

[@pixegami]

Yes you should be able to do it in the theme file :) If you want the exact code, you can probably copy paste the theme code into ChatGPT and ask for a recommendation.

[@user-dt9ty8nd5q]

hi pixegami im new in linux and i want to knew how to select the directory that i want like you did in 0:42 in the video and thank you :) @pixegami