terminal

The terminal is a powerful tool useful to deal with, manage and accomplish numerous task types, such as adding PPAs, updating packages, launch applications, unpacking archives, etc, tasks that may utilize both small and long periods of time.

Usually, in our daily workflows, we are simultaneously managing applications, files, Web content, bundle of windows that allows the user to perform complex actions by locating and directing specific tasks per window.

Adding a PPA, removing a package, copy items to various locations, etc, are actions doable via the GNOME Terminal, powerful app that contains numerous features.

The terminal comes with support for transparency, meaning, the user can easily enable/disable window transparency, as well as selecting a regular image as background.

Glossy Lines is a pleasant-to-the-eye bundle of images, designed with the terminal in mind.

Ubuntu offers, by default, Ubuntu Software Center for users to deal with software (install, uninstall, etc), System Settings to expose numerous configuration options and GNOME Terminal where more advanced actions are to be performed by both experimented and fresh users (where commands such as ls, cd, rm are easily graspable).

GNOME Terminal is a tool that be used by both knowledgeable users and newcomers, offering via a spartan sober interface access to numerous commands.

Although the terminal is usually used for its functionalities rather than its look, there are users who prefer to modify its default look&feel in order to please the eye but also to constantly observe various system information when the terminal is launched.

GNOME Terminal is usually identified as a tool useful to perform serious, in-depth tasks like removing packages, installing kernels, updating the system, etc, nevertheless it seems that its powerful "nature" can be corroborated with funny, pleasant additions.

Nyancat CLI is an interesting tool that renders the notorious Nyancat inside the GNOME Terminal, furthermore it counts the time spent with the running app in the form of You have nyaned for x seconds!.

GNOME Terminal is a powerful tool useful for executing various commands, commands that can vary related to the possessed knowledge level and can be used according to one's amount of informations (versed users can use the terminal for a huge base of actions, yet newcomers can use this command line tool to easily add a PPA via copy & paste).

GNOME Terminal is a powerful tool, but there are little tricks designed to make our life easier.

There are commands that require sudo rights, some of the usual commands known (consequently we enter them in terminal with sudo in front, like, for, instance, sudo apt-get upgrade) and others lesser known (in this case we need to reintroduce the command again preceded by sudo).

!! is a handy command that repeats the last entered command useful for above mentioned cases making one's entering mistakes painless, so, if one types in terminal