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Hotwire is a graphical shell intended to replace the interactive command execution portion of a typical Unix shell. It includes much of the functionality found in the combination of a terminal emulator, a shell, and core utilities like ls and grep.

Install Hotwire in Ubuntu Gutsy

Download Hotwire .deb package from here

Now you should be having hotwire_0.599-1~getdeb1_all.deb package

Install this package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i hotwire_0.599-1~getdeb1_all.deb

This will complete the installation.

If you want to open hotwire Go to Applications—>System Tools—>Hotwire Shell

Once it opens you should see the following screen

Hotwire Examples

1)When you type ls command it give the available commands list

2)ls -al output shows in the window

Hotwire Version Details