terminal font coloring questions

[I'mGeorge]

Ok I want the username and OS specified in the terminal to look something like this

username@ubuntu:~$apt-get moo

can this be done in xterm or aterm or any other terminal for that matter ?

[TeoBigusGeekus]

PS1="\033[0;31m\u\033[0;34m@\h:\w\$\033[0m"
export PS1

[I'mGeorge]

PS1="\033[0;31m\u\033[0;34m@\h:\w\$\033[0m"
export PS1

Thx man, now my terminal blends a little bit better into my desktop theme.

[0949er]

PS1="\033[0;31m\u\033[0;34m@\h:\w\$\033[0m"
export PS1

how did you come up with that? for those of us who want to create our own custom string?

and is that a permanent change or does it default back to normal once restarted?

[TeoBigusGeekus]

how did you come up with that? for those of us who want to create our own custom string?

and is that a permanent change or does it default back to normal once restarted?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linu...2.pdf/download
Chapter 14

[I'mGeorge]

how did you come up with that? for those of us who want to create our own custom string?

and is that a permanent change or does it default back to normal once restarted?

Nice manual @TeoBigusGeekus but to answer @0949er in a few words here it goes.
PS1 it's a shell variable, as I've just found out myself. So if you wanna find more about how you can customize prompt settings that are stored in this variable,and it's parameters follow this link http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-sh...linux-or-unix/

If you wanna make the changes permanent edit the file ~/.bashrc from your home folder. Look for something that's pretty much like this

PS1="\[\e]0;${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h: \w\a\]$PS1"

and replace it with your own, in my case it's what TeoBigusGeekus already gave me

PS1="\033[0;31m\u\033[0;34m@\h:\w\$\033[0m"