Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

Terminator – the ultimate terminal

The first thing you need to do in order to become productive is to have a good terminal. Throughout the book, we will be working mostly with the command line, which means that the primary piece of software we will be using is our terminal. A great terminal that we recommend is Terminator, which can be installed from the software center.

Let's go to our launcher and click on the software center icon. After it opens, click on the search input and write terminator, as shown in the following screenshot. It will probably be first in the list of results. Click on Install.

After installing Terminator, it's a good idea to ...