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[DarkLordoftheMonkeys]

Thanks to Dargueta for the tutorial on generating ANSI color text. I'm using the output of this shell program as my desktop wallpaper:

#!/bin/bash

# This script creates a neat looking space background for the terminal.


for((i=0; i < 1000; i++))

do

	printf "\033[40m";

	declare -i spaces=$RANDOM/1024;

	for((j=0; j < $spaces; j++))

	do

		printf " ";

	done

	colors=([0]="\033[31m" [1]="\033[32m" [2]="\033[33m" [3]="\033[34m" [4]="\033[35m" [5]="\033[36m" [6]="\033[37m");

	declare -i color=$RANDOM%7;

	declare -i plusordot=$RANDOM%4;

	if [ $plusordot -ne 0 ]

	then

		printf "${colors[$color]}.\033[0m";

	else

		printf "${colors[$color]}+\033[0m";

	fi

done

echo "";

unset i j spaces colors color plusordot;

I'm probably going to modify this script to make the bash prompt appear at the top of the terminal window, so you're typing commands over the background.

[asafe]

Nice, just need to have the prompt above the background. Maybe you could hack $PS1?