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How to change the font of various terminal emulators?

Mainly: Gnome Terminal Xfce Terminal Konsole LXTerminal Terminator Guake Yakuake Urxvt Xterm Mrxvt
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How do I set up a background Image for console in ubuntu

Some of you may know this from opensuse. There the console is able to have a background. Is Ubuntu also able to have a backround image outside the x window system?
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Possible to customize Terminal context (right-click) menu?

I am making the transition to Ubuntu 10.0.04 from years of Windows. It would help if the terminal could have the right-click context menu display the copy command first in the command list, instead of ...
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How to show ascii art at the top of the terminal when it's opened?

As you can see on this screeshot of Mik's Guake he have a statup message of ascii art when he opens it, and that's what I'd like to do, can someone help me?
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Adding a Wine (.exe) file to open/play files in Thunar's 'Custom Actions'

What is the line parameter in Thunar's "custom actions" that would play a music directory in a Wine (.exe) program? I want to put Foobar2000 (and possibly other such applications) in Thunar's Custom ...
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How to add applications and GUI to the minimal Ubuntu?

I would like to build a custom Ubuntu from the minimal Ubuntu version. I plan to use the 11.10 version. My question is, how to I add the basic necessary packages like networking, desktop, apt-get, ...
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How to add a custom shape in the beginning of terminal command-prompt?

I have seen a lot of terminal with sweet shape in the beginning of terminal command-prompt, like this: and i want to add a shape like this : .....____________________ , ,__ ....../ ...
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Embed terminal on desktop positioning

this is my script to embed terminal in my desktop, but how do I make it appear in the corner next to the unity launcher? #!/bin/bash sleep 20 && gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=trans777 ...
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Aliases: difference between .bash_rc, .bash_aliases and /usr/local/bin

Playing around with Terminal, I noticed that there are many ways to create permanent aliases. I'm a Linux newbie, and from what I know, doing: sudo ln -s /path/to/esecutable ...