How to Customize Terminal on Mac

This step-by-step guide explains how to customize terminal on mac. It covers the required setup, the main actions, and the checks that help prevent common problems.

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You can change the theme for the Terminal window by navigating to Terminal> Preferences. From the Terminal menu bar.

In the Preferences Window, select the Profiles Tab. These options will adjust the appearance of the new Terminal Windows.

You can adjust the background color, text, text display options, size and font type, ANSI pointer type and color. ANSI color is used when the Terminal command displays the colored output.

Next, set the profile to the default profile by clicking on the Default Button at the bottom. All Terminal Windows will open in this profile.

You can also open the specific profile for the Terminal window by visiting Shell> New Window . This will allow you to select the profile from the new shell.

The terminal can run specific shell commands each time the shell window opens. These commands are assigned to a profile, so different profiles will execute different commands.

Open the Preference window of Terminal from Terminal> Preferences And select the Shell Tab.

In the Startup Section, check the Run Command Box, then type the shell command you want to perform when you start the window. Note, you should also check the Run inside shell box .

This installation will automatically save this command to the link profile and run it when opening the shell in that profile. To turn off the start command, uncheck Run command .

You can change the text color in Terminal Prompt by editing ' . Bash_profile' . For new users of Terminal Prompt, they will see this text appear when opening a new shell to the left of the text cursor.

Open. Bash_profile in nano with the following command:

 nano ~ / .bash_profile 

When. Bash_profile opens, you will add a new line starting with:

 export PS1 = 

After the equals sign, we will add ANSI color code. PS1 also contains the Escape sequence, such as the user name, server name, currently working directory, etc. For the screenshot above, we will use the following color rules:

 export PS1 = "[e [38; 5; 051; 48; 5; 233m] u @ h W $ [e [0m]" 

This prompt includes ANSI color codes and escape sequence for users (u), server (h) and currently working directory (w).

You can change the text formatting format in Terminal through profile settings or directly by typing the shell command. To add text color in a profile, use the text color settings in Terminal> Preferences> Text .

To change the color temporarily, use the command below:

 export PS1 = "[e [38; 5; 051; 48; 5; 233m] u @ h W $ [e [0m]" 

You will see results like this:

If you want the text to continue to be colored, turn off E [0m . Users can also enable ANSI color codes here. In addition, you can also format the text to be typed in Terminal, which can even cause the text to blink.

 printf "Normal e [5mBlinkn" 

By default, Terminal displays the current working directory, operation process and frame size in the title bar of the Terminal window.

However, you can change this window title in the Window tab of Preference. Open Preference and select Window Tab.

Adjust the settings at the top to change the window title. You can see the changes in the open shells of the edit profile.