HOWTO: Customize terminal header

[Lostincyberspace]

Actually the color was 1;36 the light cyan Sorry I was very misleading I didn't even make a reference to the color.

[LeoSolaris]

Hey! I was just playing with this yesterday from the terminal. If you change the PS1 line from terminal directly, it will change, but it changes back when ya restart the terminal. I figured there would be a file in the back somewhere, and I noticed POR's sig, and rejoiced!

Thanks, I like having the current time and date at the beginning. It makes things much more convenient.

I'm using PS1='\T on \d - \u:\w\$' It shows the time in 12 hour with seconds, on the date - my user name:current dir$

In the Terminal's edit, I changed the profile so it shows up 25% translucent, as well as displaying a better name for it that the PS1 line. In my case, 'Leo's Terminal'

Leo S.

[ChaoticVengeance]

My PS1 lines are preceded by this:

${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}
So my line looks like:
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\e[0;31m\](\t)\[\e[m\]\[\e[0;32m\]\u\[\e[m\]@\[\e[0;34m\]\w\[\e[m\]\$ '

What does this do, and is it required to run the terminal properly?

[PurposeOfReason]

My PS1 lines are preceded by this:

${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}
So my line looks like:
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\e[0;31m\](\t)\[\e[m\]\[\e[0;32m\]\u\[\e[m\]@\[\e[0;34m\]\w\[\e[m\]\$ '

What does this do, and is it required to run the terminal properly?

Since I don't use a Debian based system, I don't know what it does but I do know you probably don't need it. However, if it's there it's probably doing something and it's not hurting anything, so don't touch it.

You can just make a new PS1 line and put it at the end. The last PS1 line in the file is what is used.

[blacksm1th]

Thank you PurposeOfReason. Here is my terminal:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}|\[\033[00;34m\]\u\[\033[00m\]\[^\]\[\033[00;34m\]\h\[\033[00m\]\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[00;33m\]\W\[\033[00m\]|\[\033[00;36m\]\$\[\033[00m\] '

[bruno666]

Here's another example of prompt customisation :

# Some colors
#grey='\[\033[1;30m\]'
#red='\[\033[0;31m\]'
#green='\[\033[0;32m\]'
GREEN='\[\033[1;32m\]'
#blue='\[\033[0;34m\]'
#BLUE='\[\033[1;34m\]'
cyan='\[\033[0;36m\]'
#CYAN='\[\033[1;36m\]'
GREEN='\[\033[1;32m\]'
#white='\[\033[1;37m\]'
#yellow='\[\033[1;33m\]'
RED='\[\033[1;31m\]'
#violet='\[\033[1;35m\]'
NC='\[\033[0;m\]'

# if you are root (uid=0) brackets and @ in red, else in green for normal user
if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
  b=$RED
  e="$NC# "
else
  b=$GREEN
  e="$NC$ "
fi
 PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}$b[$NC\u$b@$NC\h:$cyan\w$b]$e"

This could be either in $HOME/.bashrc for a single user, or in /etc/bash.bashrc for a system-wide setting

[Gen2ly]

Good howto. ASCII sequences can go beyond the predefined eight colors. The process isnt' all too difficult but I learned that Freexx has a converter that converts hexidecimal code to the corresponding bash ASCII sequence.

http://frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/

Install and:

echo d3d7cf | conv-rgb2xterm

Alternatively instead of using ASCII, tput can be used:

export TXT_GR=$(tput setaf 2)
 export TXT_BL=$(tput setaf 4)
 export TXT_BLD=$(tput bold)
 export TXT_RESET=$(tput sgr0)
 export PS1='\[${TXT_GR}${TXT_BLD}\]@${TXT_BL} \w \$${TXT_RESET} '

Just thought I'd throw that in.

[SkonesMickLoud]

Is there any way to apply different PS1 lines to different terminal windows?

I have a dark background, and want a light font color for my Devilspie induced Desktop Terminal. My regular terminal windows are the default Ubuntu Human theme, so a light font is difficult to read.

Can I do this, or do I have to find a happy medium?

[conundrumx]

PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]'

The user@host part is a different color for each of the servers so I can quickly differentiate which machine I'm connected to. Green is my laptop.

@Skones: If your desktop terminal is run from a different program you can put an export PS1 in the launcher. You can set a PS1 in bashrc which will persist across terminals, put an export line in gnome-terminal's launcher, and another in whichever program you use for the desktop terminal.

[trappy]

Thanks for the tip, works like a charm. Here's mine;