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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.

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

Of course we do.

witek wrote:...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.

I just edit /root/.bashrc and change the line that reads:
to say:
Gives it a nice change from the standard prompt. Why not just add a wiki article with some tweaks like that?

Mine for root is: and for average user:
Anyway, I guess root`s PS1 should be changed by default. At least its color.

Let users propose their prompts here and maybe developers choose something

By the way: how to add something to wiki?

witek wrote: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)

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

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

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.

Zenwalk hadn't.

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