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?

2 Answers

• 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

Open ~/.bashrc in text editor and un-comment line:

force_color_prompt=yes

to be:

force_color_prompt=yes

save then execute source ~/.bashrc