How to: Make a Cool Terminal Start thing.

[fedex1993]

Okay many people have seen that when some people start up there is like a "Ubuntu" logo well i will tell you how you can do that.


1. The first thing you will need is to install a program called figlet. To do that Open up a terminal (Usually if your using gnome you would go to Applications>Accessories>Terminal) And than type "Sudo apt-get install figlet" it will most likely ask you yes or no do you want to install and you will half to type your password.


2. The second thing your going to do is while yo are still inside of the terminal(Applications>Accessories>Terminal) your going to type sudo gedit /home/username/.bashrc (where it says username put your login name) and at the very bottom of your .bashrc press enter than copy and paste in figlet "ubuntu";echo -n 'Hello '; whoami; echo '' just like that. Save the file.


3. Close the terminal window that you where in. Open up a brand new terminal(Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and you should see something like this at the top of your terminal link (http://img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/5/12/28/f_screeniem_3021efb.png) Something like that but i am still working on getting other stuff Like this.

Credits Go to Dr.Small from ubuntu forums he is the one that showed me how do actually do this from start.

Hope you try it.
Fedex

[fedex1993]

now one likes this :(

[Takinu]

Hm, never thought of doing something like that,
actually, it's pretty cool!

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Thanks dude :P

[Chokkan]

That is pretty cool. Any way to customize?

[fedex1993]

yeah i think you can change like what it says, like where it says "ubuntu" put like "FedeX" or something like that.

[bobbocanfly]

Was bored so wrote another one, this time using your hostname. Surprisingly useful to have your headless servers print their hostname in massive letters. You have no idea how many times i have messed things up typing the wrong commands into the wrong servers.

hostname | figlet; echo -n 'Hello '; whoami; echo;

Edit: PS fedex, this is cool :)

[fedex1993]

yeah there is a unlimted possibilites of what you can put on there :)

[Dr.Ninethousand]

neat, thanks.. :)

[svtfmook]

cool, thanks!

[PinkFloyd102489]

I adapted the figlet command into the print command.


Thanks for this guide, fun to play with. :-)

[Lunks]

Didn't like much the figlet stuff, but it enlightened me on the possibilities I can do when starting a terminal.
Going for a textfile reading random frases. :)

[Dr.Ninethousand]

is it possible to set colors in the greeting? :)

[Chokkan]

Yeah, that is pretty cool :)

[fedex1993]

i think you might be able to hold on i am going to see if i can get the colors setup and what not

[markp1989]

very nice thanks

[Darkagentx]

Now this I like; thanks :D

[ChaoticVengeance]

Very nice. I love doing little things like this; you get to customize your system and learn more about how it works at the same time.

[zxscooby]

thats pretty slick! thanks

[fedex1993]

welcome

[blacksm1th]

Thanks for the tip. Here is my terminal:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9122/screenshotterminalroothyb8.th.png (http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotterminalroothyb8.png)

brown='\e[0;33m'
nc='\e[0m'
echo -e ${brown}; figlet -f speed.flf ubuntu; echo -e ${nc}
:guitar:

[elianthony]

I agree, this is pretty cool.

Thanks Fedex

[fedex1993]

yeah i got it working with each diffrent letter is a different color :)

[Dr.Ninethousand]

Thanks for the tip. Here is my terminal:
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/9122/screenshotterminalroothyb8.th.png (http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotterminalroothyb8.png)

brown='\e[0;33m'
nc='\e[0m'
echo -e ${brown}; figlet -f speed.flf ubuntu; echo -e ${nc}
:guitar:

nice.. too bad I don't really understand any of that code.. :p

[blacksm1th]

nice.. too bad I don't really understand any of that code.. :p
The first two lines define "human" names of colors - here is the others:
BLACK='\e[0;30m'
BLUE='\e[0;34m'
GREEN='\e[0;32m'
CYAN='\e[0;36m'
RED='\e[0;31m'
PURPLE='\e[0;35m'
BROWN='\e[0;33m'
LIGHTGRAY='\e[0;37m'
DARKGRAY='\e[1;30m'
LIGHTBLUE='\e[1;34m'
LIGHTGREEN='\e[1;32m'
LIGHTCYAN='\e[1;36m'
LIGHTRED='\e[1;31m'
LIGHTPURPLE='\e[1;35m'
YELLOW='\e[1;33m'
WHITE='\e[1;37m'
NC='\e[0m' # No Color

This "echo -e ${brown}" make all following text brown
This "figlet -f speed.flf ubuntu" define font "speed.flf" and text "ubuntu"
This "echo -e ${nc}" reset color to terminal default (in my case green)

Fonts are here: FONTS (http://www.figlet.org/fontdb.cgi) - copy *.flf in /usr/share/figlet

[Dr.Ninethousand]

thanks! makes sense now..

[fooman]

haha ...another cool tip! :)

thanks to fedex1993 for this post and to blacksm1th for the explanation of the code.

:guitar:

[Marcial Contreras]

I like this, I think

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[blacksm1th]

Just to share some information about figlet: if you want to format output of another command with figlet fonts:
$ whoami | figlet


My new terminal:
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/7968/screenshotbrr.th.png (http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotbrr.png)

brown='\e[0;33m'
nc='\e[0m'
echo -e ${brown}; cat /etc/lsb-release | grep CODENAME | cut -d"=" -f2 | figlet -t -c -d /home/azot/.fonts -f isometric3.flf ; echo -e ${nc}