{"id":2247,"date":"2013-06-04T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:02:12","slug":"terminal-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"Terminal fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

W00T!\u00a0 Okay, not actually fun, and not terminal as in deathly.<\/p>\n

I’m talking about the Terminal Emulator<\/a> that comes with every Linux distribution.\u00a0 It’s similar to the Command Prompt<\/a>, for all those Windows users who have seen that.\u00a0 As much as I prefer to never use it, sometimes I do.\u00a0 It appears every time I use WinFF<\/a> to extract the audio from video files, for example.\u00a0 And I also need to use the terminal to convert\u00a0 .toc files to .iso files using toc2cue and bchunk.<\/p>\n

And since I’m using a replica Commodore 64…<\/p>\n

\"C64x_side\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I had already customized the terminal’s colours to match the old-school Commodore 64 home screen:<\/p>\n

\"BUv00bk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My terminal started out looking like this:<\/p>\n

\"yvgKoqC\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was aware that the text inside the window could be customized, but I had no idea how to accomplish this.\u00a0 So I went to Reddit and posted a question in \/r\/asklinux.\u00a0 And about an hour later, I was able to get my terminal looking like this:<\/p>\n

\"C64<\/a><\/p>\n

This was done simply by adding this code to the .bashrc file in my home folder:<\/p>\n

PS1=\"READY.\\n\"\r\n\r\nFREEMEM=$(free | grep buffers |tail -1| tr -s '[:space:]' | cut -d \" \" -f 4)\r\nTOTALMEM=$(free | grep Mem | tr -s '[:space:]' | cut -d \" \" -f 2)\r\necho \\ \r\necho \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\*\\*\\*\\* COMMODORE 64 BASH V4.2.25 \\*\\*\\*\\*\r\necho \\ \r\necho \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\\u00a0 \\ ${TOTALMEM}K RAM SYSTEM ${FREEMEM}K FREE\r\necho \\<\/pre>\n
Since that file controls whatever terminal uses Bash<\/a>, the same text and info appears when I use XTerm, though the Commodore 64 font and colours are absent.<\/p>\n
And I also went one step further and decided to customize the root terminal profile.\u00a0 I made it look like an AmigaDOS window:<\/p>\n
\"AmigaDOS<\/a><\/p>\n
Neat?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Useful?\u00a0 Not particularly.\u00a0 But it sure makes the terminals match the rest of my Commodore and Amiga themes, skins, icons and cursors that I have happening on this computer.<\/p>\n
It makes me think of the “Commodore OS Vision<\/a>” distro that Commodore USA released along with these replica Commodore 64s.\u00a0 They didn’t do anything like this to the terminal in that OS, when it turns out to be so easy.\u00a0 That distro is also quite an eyesore and a hot mess.\u00a0 There are a few reasons why I didn’t keep it installed on my C64 when I got it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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