In your favorite image editor, create a new image with relatively tiny dimensions-say 20×20 pixels. Whether you find this effect interesting, useful, or distracting probably depends on the types of images you choose to place in the chosen folder.īut here's one way to use this trick that might actually be useful-or at worst, not incredibly distracting. Now every time you open a new Terminal window (Command-N), Terminal will randomly display one of the selected images from the folder you specified. Here's a trick: instead of selecting a particular image file, select a folder that contains a number of images and click Open. You can change the window background color or use an image in the Profiles sectin of the Terminal preferences.

When you open a new window, the image will be in the background. Navigate to the image you want to use, select it, and click the Open button. When clicked, a Choose button appears, and then when you click on that, the file dialog appears. If you want to use an image, click the pop-up menu next to the Image setting. A color picker window will pop up, and you can select the color of your choice To change the background color, click the Color & Effects button in the Background section. Click on a profile, and then in the main section of the window, you find the profile's settings. You can select one of those, or you can customize a profile. On the left, you'll find a column of shell profiles, each using different color combinations. You access these settings in the Terminal > Preferences screen click the Profiles tab. You can use either a color or an image, and you can also set a transparency level for the selected color or image. As you may or may not know, you can customize the background of a Terminal window in macOS.

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