# Terminal Customizing 

Because customizing your terminal for your  computer is FUN! Here is  a list  of things that is  on my tentative list  of things I'd  like to play around with: 

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- Wikit is a cool  way to have a summary come up straight through the terminal from wikipedia 
	- Getting  [wikit](https://www.tecmint.com/wikipedia-commandline-tool/) set up on the terminal 
	- this led to the installation of [fink](obsidian://open?vault=Coding%20Tips&file=Computers%2FMac%20OS%20X%2FTerminal%20Tips%2FShells%2Fpackage%20managers%2FFink) as it's only available via Linux commands
-  _watch Star Wars in terminal_ : ```Telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl - 
- `cmatrix` & `asciiquarium`  after brew install
	- toilet  --> turn any text into ascii art 
- check health of SSD on your laptop to make it [last longer ](https://www.macworld.com/article/334283/how-to-m1-intel-mac-ssd-health-terminal-smartmontools.html)through ```smartmontools```
- Get cool terminal [customizations](https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/themes) with [oh my posh ](https://ohmyposh.dev/)
	- ![[Pasted image 20230724024452.png]]

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# Terminal Emulators: 
There are many terminal emulators that exist to try to replace the good ol' classic terminal. Just to keep things spicy, here are the other options: 

- iTerm2 - a very popular alt terminal with customizations 
- Alacritty - a nice terminal emulator that I installed 
	- [git repo here ](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty)
- Hyper 
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