Here is easy way add date and time to Linux terminal title. This trick works at least following terminals Gnome Terminal, xterm, urxvt, rxvt.
Simply type the following command line:
while sleep 1 ; do echo -ne '\033]2;'`date`'\007'; done &
I like very much Ethan Schoonover Solarized color palette. So I decided write a guide, howto get Solarized colors to most commonly used Linux terminals (Gnome-Terminal, Konsole, XFCE Terminal, Mate-Terminal), Text editors (Gedit, Vim) and IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans). These are not my projects, so the greatest honor belongs, of course, these projects owners and Ethan Schoonover.
1. Install Needed Tools (git, mercurial, 7-zip) 2. Create and Change to Solarized Directory 3. Solarized Terminals 3.1 Solarized Gnome-Terminal 3.2 Solarized Konsole 3.3 Solarized Terminal (XFCE Terminal) 3.4 Solarized Mate-Terminal 4. Solarized Editors 4.1 Solarized Gedit 4.2 Solarized Vim 5. Solarized IDEs 5.1 Solarized Eclipse 5.2 Solarized NetBeans 1. Install Needed Tools (git, mercurial, 7-zip) This is normally easiest do with you package management system, like: