Minor suggestions

[witek]

I don`t know if developers accept suggestions from the users but I guess that prompt color and/or scheme for root user could be different from that for a normal user. I often mistakenly destroyed things from command line when I was logged as root until I changed the color of prompt to red. Now I know that I`m root and have to be careful. I also think that symlinking or sourcing .bashrc in .bash_login wouldn`t be a bad idea.

[gapan]

I don`t know if developers accept suggestions from the users...

Of course we do.

...but I guess that prompt color and/or scheme for root user could be different from that for a normal user. I often mistakenly destroyed things from command line when I was logged as root until I changed the color of prompt to red. Now I know that I`m root and have to be careful. I also think that symlinking or sourcing .bashrc in .bash_login wouldn`t be a bad idea.

Not bad ideas at all.

[stuckinoregon]

I just edit /root/.bashrc and change the line that reads:

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export PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' 

to say:

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export PS1='\[\e[0;31m\]\u\[\e[m\] \[\e[1;34m\]\w\[\e[m\] \[\e[0;31m\]\$ \[\e[m\]\[\e[0;32m\] '

Gives it a nice change from the standard prompt. Why not just add a wiki article with some tweaks like that?

[witek]

Mine for root is:

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export PS1="\e[31;1m\u@\h:[\t][\w]\n\\$ \e[0m"

and for average user:

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export PS1="\u@\h:[\t][\w]\n\\$"

Anyway, I guess root`s PS1 should be changed by default. At least its color.

[witek]

Let users propose their prompts here and maybe developers choose something

By the way: how to add something to wiki?

[Akuna]

By the way: how to add something to wiki?

You have to create a new account to be able to log into it
-> Look on the upper right corner of the documentation page.
Different than the forum account (although of course, you can use the same login)

[thenktor]

BTW: Didn't we have some bash colors in the past? Or was this in Zenwalk?

[gapan]

We didn't and I don't remember zenwalk having any either.

[thenktor]

I've mixed up things. What I mean is color highlighting of different file types when you do "ls". This doesn't work in xterm, but it works if you do "ssh localhost" first.

[JRD]

Zenwalk hadn't.

I lost my last settings. So, I'll be glad to have nice prompt for regular or super user.