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.

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.

My Workstation (PAID LINKS)

[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)

[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...

[priyanksaikia]

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.

[magicmanj]

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

[devotedros]

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

[xiaozhu]

Stunning and useful tips, thanks a lot mate.

[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...)

[ignaciocaballero]

Hi, Thank you so much for the great video

[BAdKnownPov]

you are the first one that worked <3

[MrREALball]

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

[duggrein]

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 ?

[Linuxver-hklk]

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

[erlich]

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?

[marcoaugusto]

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.o]

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.

[fawzanfawzi]

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

[liftlinux]

Never reliazed that you moved to Endeavour OS

[ARKTIKA]

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

[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.