Last Modified: Sat 11 Apr, 2020 12:37 PM
There's no point in denying this: I'm a heavy terminal user. To be specific, I prefer plain 'ol xterm.
I'm a bit more particular than that though - I prefer xterm, with GNU Screen inside of it, Solarized color palette, and with a GNU Bash shell - with my customized .screenrc, .Xresources, .bashrc, command prompt, and extended tab completion (amongst others).
And because I'm such a nice guy, I'm going to share my customizations for each of these with you. Most of these I've had kicking around for years, and many of which started from something I found online. Sadly, I can't cite their origins any longer...
This is the config file from which I load X Resources. It's customized to be Solarized. I load it with xrdb .Xdefaults from within ~/.xsession.
!! make double clicking on text to select the entire word xterm*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48 !! drop in Solarized colorscheme for Xresources/Xdefaults !!SOLARIZED HEX 16/8 TERMCOL XTERM/HEX L*A*B RGB HSB !!--------- ------- ---- ------- ----------- ---------- ----------- ----------- !!base03 #002b36 8/4 brblack 234 #1c1c1c 15 -12 -12 0 43 54 193 100 21 !!base02 #073642 0/4 black 235 #262626 20 -12 -12 7 54 66 192 90 26 !!base01 #586e75 10/7 brgreen 240 #585858 45 -07 -07 88 110 117 194 25 46 !!base00 #657b83 11/7 bryellow 241 #626262 50 -07 -07 101 123 131 195 23 51 !!base0 #839496 12/6 brblue 244 #808080 60 -06 -03 131 148 150 186 13 59 !!base1 #93a1a1 14/4 brcyan 245 #8a8a8a 65 -05 -02 147 161 161 180 9 63 !!base2 #eee8d5 7/7 white 254 #e4e4e4 92 -00 10 238 232 213 44 11 93 !!base3 #fdf6e3 15/7 brwhite 230 #ffffd7 97 00 10 253 246 227 44 10 99 !!yellow #b58900 3/3 yellow 136 #af8700 60 10 65 181 137 0 45 100 71 !!orange #cb4b16 9/3 brred 166 #d75f00 50 50 55 203 75 22 18 89 80 !!red #dc322f 1/1 red 160 #d70000 50 65 45 220 50 47 1 79 86 !!magenta #d33682 5/5 magenta 125 #af005f 50 65 -05 211 54 130 331 74 83 !!violet #6c71c4 13/5 brmagenta 61 #5f5faf 50 15 -45 108 113 196 237 45 77 !!blue #268bd2 4/4 blue 33 #0087ff 55 -10 -45 38 139 210 205 82 82 !!cyan #2aa198 6/6 cyan 37 #00afaf 60 -35 -05 42 161 152 175 74 63 !!green #859900 2/2 green 64 #5f8700 60 -20 65 133 153 0 68 100 60 #define S_base03 #002b36 #define S_base02 #073642 #define S_base01 #586e75 #define S_base00 #657b83 #define S_base0 #839496 #define S_base1 #93a1a1 #define S_base2 #eee8d5 #define S_base3 #fdf6e3 #define S_yellow #b58900 #define S_orange #cb4b16 #define S_red #dc322f #define S_magenta #d33682 #define S_violet #6c71c4 #define S_blue #268bd2 #define S_cyan #2aa198 #define S_green #859900 *background: S_base03 *foreground: S_base00 *fading: 40 *fadeColor: S_base03 *cursorColor: S_base1 *pointerColorBackground:S_base01 *pointerColorForeground:S_base1 !! black dark/light *color0: S_base02 *color8: S_base03 !! red dark/light *color1: S_red *color9: S_orange !! green dark/light *color2: S_green *color10: S_base01 !! yellow dark/light *color3: S_yellow *color11: S_base00 !! blue dark/light *color4: S_blue *color12: S_base0 !! magenta dark/light *color5: S_magenta *color13: S_violet !! cyan dark/light *color6: S_cyan *color14: S_base1 !! white dark/light *color7: S_base2 *color15: S_base3
Yeah, I know, I should be running tmux instead, but whatever.
This configuration does a couple of nice things - but mainly it adds a nice statusbar to the bottom of each session showing handy stuff like the hostname, the open pseudo-terminals, and the date and time.
startup_message off caption string "%?%F%{= Bk}%? %C%A %D %d-%m-%Y %{= kB} %t%= %?%F%{= Bk}%:%{= wk}%? %n " hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %d/%m %{W}%c %{g}]' multiuser on #acladd root,blood,brent defscrollback 29999 termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@
This is how I customize my shell on most systems. I sometimes have to do a bit of work for this to work like symlinking .bash_profile to it or pointing it at a custom location for the bash completion stuff - but this generally gets me where I want to be.
# .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ]; then . /etc/bash.bashrc fi if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then . /etc/bash_completion fi # solarized dircolors if [ -f ~/.dircolors/dircolors.ansi-dark ]; then eval ``dircolors ~/.dircolors/dircolors.ansi-dark`` fi export EDITOR=vim export QUOTING_STYLE="literal" export LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI="qemu:///system" export HISTCONTROL="ignoreboth:erasedups" export MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'" if which thefuck > /dev/null; then eval "$(thefuck --alias)" fi if [ "$PS1" ] then RED="\[\033[0;31m\]" GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]" BLUE="\[\033[0;36m\]" GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]" PINK="\[\033[0;35m\]" NORMAL="\[\e[m\]" if [ "$UID" = "0" ]; then # I am root PS1="$RED[$PINK\u$GREEN@$NORMAL\h \W$RED]$GREEN# $NORMAL" else PS1="$RED[$GREEN@$NORMAL\h \W$RED]$GREEN\$ $NORMAL" fi fi
I'm not terribly fancy with how I configure vim. I don't bother with the solarized theme for vim because I found that having the X resources configured already gives me what I want.
syntax on set smartindent set softtabstop=4 set shiftwidth=4 set tabstop=4 "set textwidth=80 set expandtab set modeline modelines=5 set number
This isn't my entire ssh config file, but these are the common elements that I always want by default. This makes the .ssh/known_hosts readable so you can find old entries and remove them easier, and it sets the TCP keepalive interval for SSH sessions which makes it play nicer with firewalls and NAT.
Host * ServerAliveInterval 60 HashKnownHosts no
I tend to use Kermit for quick connections to serial devices, and this saves me a bit of time usually.
set line /dev/ttyUSB0 set speed 115200 set carrier-watch off set flow-control none
Last Modified: Sat 11 Apr, 2020 12:37 PM