PClinux OS konsole colours

t1nm@n · 02-27-2010, 11:41 AM

hello i wanted to know how i can change the colours to the prompt

[ashish@localhost ~]$
this is how my prompt looks like i want to change it to red colour...like in bt and knoppix..

tell me how

MTK358 · 02-27-2010, 12:26 PM

That doesn't depend on the distro and terminal application.

The prompt is stored as a bash environment variable and can contain ANSI escape codes to set how the terminal displays it.

This could help:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt

And here is my bash prompt as an example:

Code:

PS1='\[\e[1;32m\][\A \u:\W]\$ \[\e[m\]' # Main prompt (Looks like this: [HH:MM username:pwd]$ )
PS2='\[\e[1;32m\]> \[\e[m\]' # Secondary prompt for multi-line commands
PS3='\[\e[1;32m\]#? \[\e[m\]' # Switch selector prompt
PS4='\[\e[1;32m\]$0:$LINENO+ \[\e[m\]' # Bash script debugging line number indicator

penguiniator · 02-27-2010, 01:16 PM

Also, you can get more detail about this than you probably want at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/.

mjolnir · 02-28-2010, 06:43 AM

One thing you might keep in mind is that the superuser terminal commonly uses a red prompt, I suppose as a warning, to keep one from inadvertently damaging the system.