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Customizing colors and backgrounds

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Customizing colors and backgrounds

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at the visual aspect of profiles. While the default settings give us a few color schemes to use, we can define our own down here in the schemes array. We can copy a color scheme from the defaults and tweak it or we can find schemes online. I'll open up a site called Terminal Splash and browse around to find a scheme that I like. Cyberpunk sounds cool, so I'll copy the code for that, and switch over to the settings. I'll paste it into the schemes array. Here in VS Code, I can even see little color boxes for the color codes, and then, I'll change the color scheme in the profile definition to match the name. I'll switch back to my terminal, and run a few commands that show some colors. Cool, and the last thing I want to show you here is how to set a background image. The background can be static or can be an animation, and I have jpeg file that I think will look pretty cool in the…

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