How to color the terminal (terminator)

Question

Sometimes I see terminals colored like this:

But mine (terminator on Ubuntu) is just black and white most of the time. How to make it colored like in the example?

Solution

• Open terminator
  • right click in the terminal window -- you will see menu
  • Choose Preferences
  • Choose Profiles
  • choose Colors
  • Select your color theme you wish
  • Or edit the colors manually as you wish

hope it helps you

Comments

[mtak]

You mean the output in the terminal? That's just depending on the application. Some applications output with color, some don't. For example, grep has the --color flag.

[LonnieBest]

That's nice, but how do people achieve different colors base on the context rather than just making everything a particular color?

[Sean Davey]

@LonnieBest you can set up different profiles with different schemes associated with each. For example I have a "regular" profile with my personal color scheme, a "work" profile with extra highlighting on important output, and a "root" profile that clearly reminds me Im using root. I think its quite intuitive how to set it up, Preferences >> Profile >> add