Category Archives: Terminal

Customising Email Signatures with Fortune

1 August, 2008 – 08:00

When I look at someone’s email signature and see a thought-provoking quote like “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” (Salvor Hardin), I add it to my mental list of quotes, which, of course, is soon forgotten. Now, with a bit of pipe magic, I can use Mutt and fortune to make my [...]

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Configuring the default prompt (PS1)

20 July, 2008 – 18:00

I use the terminal every day and I have spent a lot of time customising its configuration, particularly the default prompt, to my liking.
Today, I will show you how to customise your default prompt, or PS1.  Before I show you my spartan configuration, let me explain.  I am a minimalist, so I do not see [...]

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My Desktop – The Terminal

6 July, 2008 – 14:41

This will be the final post covering my desktop.
If you look in the bottom left corner of the screenshot, you will see my terminal, rxvt-unicode.
For the most part, I’m a cli person.  I prefer the terminal because of it’s speed.
In the terminal, you can see me running irssi (an irc client) within screen, a detachable [...]

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