![]() Tweaking the shellĪll the colors displayed in the console will be much easier on the eyes now. Restart the Cygwin console and behold the result:īetter, but there's still a bit of work to do. Put the following in your Cygwin home in. ![]() I also like Inconsolata, but I found it doesn't render as well in Windows as it does in Linux. You'll notice the font is Consolas, which is my favorite monospaced font on Windows. What I'm using is the dark Solarized theme with one change: my eyes don't agree with the dark blue background so I've switched it to pure black. You can get it for a big variety of editors, shells, terminals and if you google it, many people have adapted it to their favorite software. The colors I'm mainly using are from the Solarized palette - check the link for more on the theory behind the theme. The output you see below is using a script from The BASH HowTo (it's also in the colortest package on Linux distros). The default ones are OK as far as colors go, but they're not that pleasing for the human eye. the font is small and ugly, colors are basic and there are no tabs. Cygwin and friendsįirst reaction when starting a vanilla Cygwin will be one of horror. I do love and use PuTTY for a number of things and I've put in a small chapter at the end of this article about it (colors, tabbed interface). I can hear some of you sighing as you read this. It still suffers from the same major downside PuTTY has - lack of a tabbed interface. Nowadays, it uses mintty, which is an Xterm-compatible terminal emulator with code based on PuTTY. It has suffered in the past from having a backward terminal (it was using good old command prompt) but no more. So what's left then? Running stuff natively on Windows! This is what Cygwin does and it works quite well. Some people run Ubuntu in a VM on their Windows machine but I find that unwieldy (albeit very good in terms of functionality) and most of the time just slow - so many corporate laptops still have only 4G of RAM (and some of them don't even run a 64-bit OS!). ![]() BEST WINDOWS TERMINAL THEME HOW TOI've written an article on how to set up WSL together with Windows Terminal, Docker Desktop, and VSCode. BEST WINDOWS TERMINAL THEME UPDATE!!! 2021 UPDATE !!! If you're on Windows 10, then I recommend you use the Windows Subsystem for Linux for all of your coding and automation needs. That essentially means finding a usable solution that works on Windows. and because of that I've gotten used to having certain shell functionality on all of the computers I work on. ![]()
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