Since every aspect of Linux is customizable, so is the terminal. Why not spice it up instead of working on a plain white box? To do so, just open one and go to the Edit menu where you select Profile
Watch videos in terminal on Linux Ubuntu/Mint
Watching videos in a terminal is not exactly a useful thing since everything can only be displayed in colored ASCII code - meaning, you will have quite a low resolution. However it is still a funny thing you should have
Guake – Dropdown-Terminal for Gnome
Guake saves you the time of managing your terminal windows with circumstantial key-combinations and mouse-clicks by providing a configurable dropdown-terminal which you can call with F12 by default. Just like with usual terminals, it is possible to create new tabs,