How to Customize Kali Linux Terminal
Installing Graphical Tools in linux terminal
Today, In this article I am going to show some cool looking graphical tools and how to install them.
Let’s Begin
There are a lot of graphical tools that you can use to customize your Linux terminal.
To stylize the terminal a bit more I would like to hide the menu bar and increase the terminal’s transparency to 14%. But this is up to your decision. To do that you can find both of these settings inside the preferences window with right-click, then go to the Appearance section.
There, you will need to uncheck the Show the menu bar box and change the transparency value to your own wished one. Furthermore, you can the whole window or the specific area, I usually like to change an only top area of the terminal.
Let’s start from the first tool — htop.
htop — This is an interactive process viewer and process manager tool, which will help you track all running background jobs and check the status of your CPU and GPU.
In terminal type:
sudo apt install -y htop
And it will look like this,
Second tool is gotop.
gotop is the terminal-based graphical activity monitor.
To install it we will need to use third party repository,
In terminal type:
sudo apt install -y golang
go get github.com/cjbassi/gotop
go run github.com/cjbassi/gotop
And it will look like this,
Third tool is neofetch.
neofetch is the command line system informational tool.
In terminal type:
sudo apt install -y neofetch
And it will look like this,
Last but not least — lolcat.
lolcat is the tool to give unique look to your terminal. Adds a stunning rainbow effect to its output.
In terminal type:
sudo apt install -y lolcat
And it will look like this,
That is all, so now you can use these graphical tools to make your Linux experience personalized.
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