Changing the default prompt in Puppy terminal

gaburton1@comcast.net · 12-28-2018, 07:56 AM

I'm having an awful time trying to make this change happen at boot time. Can someone help with a step by step process?

milhan · 12-28-2018, 09:05 AM

why don't you show us what you have so far?

TB0ne · 12-28-2018, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by gaburton1@comcast.net

I'm having an awful time trying to make this change happen at boot time. Can someone help with a step by step process?

Read the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature. We're happy to help you, but we aren't going to type up step-by-step instructions that will probably repeat what's already available with a brief search online; please do basic research first.

That said, you need to edit your .bashrc file, and add whatever you'd like in as the PS1 environment variable. There are LOTS of different ways to set things up, from color, to time/date, current working directory, etc.

rnturn · 12-28-2018, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by gaburton1@comcast.net

I'm having an awful time trying to make this change happen at boot time. Can someone help with a step by step process?

If you're trying to make this happen at boot time, I suspect you want to be setting this for all system users. To do that you'll want to be editing "/etc/bash.bashrc" (obviously as "root" or using "sudo vi /etc/bash.bashrc". There's a section in that file that defines "PS1" and "PS2". Edit those and the prompt is set for all users.

If all you want is for a custom prompt for yourself, define those environment variables in your personal profile "${HOME}/.bashrc".

Good luck...

gaburton1@comcast.net · 12-28-2018, 12:30 PM

Thanks to everyone who responded. I was able to accomplish my goal with your help. Lots better info than I was getting on the internet.