Make Your Own Terminal Themes

Hey guys, this is Maads 101, and right now you probably see my terminal like, um, freaking out. That's just 'cause, um, for the fun of it, I made a command. I just typed in a command that makes it, um, display all your files.

Okay, so basically what this video is about is I'm going to show you how to make your own terminal themes. So right now you can see, um, mine's set to, um, this awesome black with these awesome coloring and this awesome awesomeness. I'm going to teach you how to make your own theme and also how to make your own cursors. Because sometimes the default cursor is over a letter, and you can't really tell if you're deleting it or you're on the next letter or what, and that confuses a lot of people, including me sometimes.

So I just made mine a vertical bar. So how do you do this? You go into Terminal preferences. You can access it by pressing Apple comma or going into, I mean, Terminal preferences. I don't know why I said Safari, or you can go into Terminal and say preferences. So to add a theme, okay? But you can use any of their themes, and you can open a new window without making the default theme by just hovering over a terminal and saying new window and whatever theme you want, and you'll have a terminal in that theme.

But to make your own theme, what you do—I'll just close this—is you hit this little plus right over there. That'll make a new theme. I guess you can call this "My Theme." Okay, you can go to My Theme. Right now, everything is going to be like the default. It'll automatically be the default, so you can change whatever you want.

So you can change the font. Let's make it, oh no, um, all fonts. What's a cool one? See, let's open a new terminal window so you can see what the themes look like. Oh, you can't see. Okay, my bad. Let's just do Helvetica, 'cause I know what that one looks like. Each ptica, and then I'll do a big, like, 18. You can also, um, so this is what Helvetica looks like.

You can space out the characters, or you can squish them together. I like them like around that big, and you can space out the lines too. So I don't know. Okay, also you can, um, customize a lot of other stuff. You can, um, customize the cursor, right?

See now, right here if I type "ls" and then I want to delete the "s" or type something in between it—right now it's transparent, but for some of them they're not. So if you want to make it a vertical bar, you can just change it to a vertical bar, and here it's more easy to see what I'm doing.

You can also, um, change the color of the cursor. I can make it red, green, or whatever I want. I can make it an underline. I can have it blink. See, so now I can tell that I'm typing, okay? And for, um, the text, you can change the color of it. You can have that text like that, and you can have bold text, orange, and you can have whatever you select in blue. So if I select something, it'll be blue.

Okay, I'll make it a darker blue. Okay, let's go into colors and a darker blue. There we go, there, okay? Now, um, you can also, um, change a lot of the other stuff. As you can see over here, you can, um, you can have it start up with an "ls" command. So now when you start up, you automatically know where you are and all that. You can also, um, say, um, when shell exits to close that window or close everything or whatever. You can also have—I'll customize a lot of other stuff.

So you can customize the background color, make it black, change it, make it transparent. So this would be a fully transparent terminal window, or I could have, um, I don't know, a red one that's half transparent. A lot of people don't know, and they just stick with the default themes. So I recommend you make your own theme. That way, when you play around with terminal, you're really happy with what you're doing. You're like, "Yes, I'm in terminal!" 'Cause a lot of people are scared of terminal, so if you customize it, you really know that you know what you're doing. I don't know, at least I feel that way.

Okay, so I'm just going to make it see-through because I don't know—see-through windows make me happy for some reason. Maybe they do with you too. So you can customize the background window. You can, um, title it like there it says "Terminal." I can call this, um, "Fun with the OS," and there it says "Fun with the OS."

And then you can have it say not the dimensions and not the process name. So there it just says "Fun with the OS," and, um, customize what the keyboard does. You can add stuff and so I don't know. So just I recommend just going here and playing around with it, and also the icon for your theme is whatever you did that your theme left.

So if I highlight everything and then I close it, you'll see that there everything's hidden and closed. So thank you for watching Maads 101. Subscribe and goodbye!