I am one of those who loves to use the terminal. I think all users of GNU / Linux At one point they can't live without it, because that piece of window full of letters makes life a lot easier for us, right?
But we can make it look a little prettier than the default. An example of this can be seen (and downloaded) from gnome-look. The tips that I will show you next, is to leave our terminal with the following appearance:
As you can see, the command to execute and is put between each order a timeline with the system time.
How do I do it?
We open a text editor (example Gedit) and we put it inside:
# Fill with minuses
# (this is recalculated every time the prompt is shown in function prompt_command):
fill="--- "
reset_style='\[\033[00m\]'
status_style=$reset_style'\[\033[0;90m\]' # gray color; use 0;37m for lighter color
prompt_style=$reset_style
command_style=$reset_style'\[\033[1;29m\]' # bold black
# Prompt variable:
PS1="$status_style"'$fill \t\n'"$prompt_style"'${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$'"$command_style "
# Reset color for command output
# (this one is invoked every time before a command is executed):
trap 'echo -ne "\e[0m"' DEBUG
function prompt_command {
# create a $fill of all screen width minus the time string and a space:
let fillsize=${COLUMNS}-9
fill=""
while [ "$fillsize" -gt "0" ]
do
fill="-${fill}" # fill with underscores to work on
let fillsize=${fillsize}-1
done
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
bname=`basename "${PWD/$HOME/~}"`
echo -ne "\033]0;${bname}: ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"
;;
*)
;;
esac
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=prompt_command
We keep it inside our / Home with the name .bash_ps2 for example. Then we open our .bashrc and we add:
if [ -f "$HOME/.bash_ps2" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bash_ps2"
fi
We open a terminal and we will be able to see the changes 
Seen in: Humans.