[iopuy]

Over the years this has been a hobby of mine to colorize the shell on Linux or at least make it easier on my eyes. The best results I've had relied on the following features:

    1. Screen. Screen allowed me to colorize the hardstatusline at the bottom of the page. You can also set the hardstatus line so it updates to show the open application. Watch the video at the bottom of the screen and when I open Vim and how it updates the tab name on the hardstatus line.

    2. Using zsh. Zsh allows you to set the right hand prompt and its color.

    3. Using Xterm. Xterm allow me to launch it with any parameters controlling font, background color, foreground color, font size etc. The font I found that work the best was "Liberation Mono".

    4. Colorize the prompt. Pretty standard.

HEre is a video making use of all these features except for zsh. This was back when I used bash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_44vs1WvY

[Nick_C]

Thanks. Actually, that video is about cut-n-paste. The michaelkelleher.info site mentioned in the video no longer works. Do you have an updated one?