How can I have the cool purple theme as in Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows? This is what I have: enter image description here

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See superuser.com/questions/1128269/… – Panther Jun 5 '17 at 18:34
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What do you mean by "on Ubuntu on Windows"? – Hayden Stites Jun 5 '17 at 18:34
    
@HaydenStites updated the question with a screenshot – Mona Jalal Jun 5 '17 at 18:37
    
So this is a Windows program which allows you to use the Ubuntu Bash? – Hayden Stites Jun 5 '17 at 18:39
    
@HaydenStites - Yes, see bash on windows - msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about . It is supported by Ubuntu thus "ubuntu on windows" so to speak. To theme it you need to theme the windows command prompt, see linky I have. – Panther Jun 5 '17 at 18:51

Sort of turning some of the comments into an answer.

"Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" is a colaborative project between Canonical and Microsoft

Overview

Bash on Windows provides developers with a familiar Bash shell and Linux environment in which you can run most Linux command-line tools, directly on Windows, UNMODIFIED, without needing an entire Linux virtual machine!

Bash/WSL allows you to:

Run common command-line utilities such as grep, sed, awk, etc. Use the Linux-compatible filesystem & hierarchy and access fixed Windows storage mounted under /mnt/... Run Bash shell scripts and Linux command-line apps. including Tools: vim, emacs, tmux Languages: Javascript/node.js, Ruby, Python, C/C++, C# & F#, Rust, Go, etc. Services: sshd, MySQL, Apache, lighttpd, Install additional Linux tools using apt Invoke Windows applications from within Bash Invoke Linux applications from within Windows!

Bash on Windows runs Ubuntu user-mode binaries provided by Canonical. This means the command-line utilities are the same as those that run within a native Ubuntu environment.

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/faq for additional details.

But theming the bash environment is the same as theming the Windows command prompt. There are some themes available, see https://github.com/neilpa/cmd-colors-solarized

dark

Light

BUT the Ubuntu purple theme is not available yet.

Further discussion here - https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/880

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