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https://bbs.archlinux.org – Can't change my user bash prompt color, while root prompt does work correctly and changes colors whenever I edit /root/.bashrcMy root and user .bashrc are identical except for the colors:# Check for an interactive session [ -z "$PS1" ] && return alias ls='ls --color=auto' #PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' PS1='\[\e[1;33m\][\u @ \@ \w]\$ \[\e[0;32m\]' #setup XIM environment, needn't if use SCIM as gtk-immodules export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS="@im=ibus"What overrides my user ~/.bashrc PS1 colors?.Xdefau (HowTos)

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Can't change my user bash prompt color, while root prompt does work correctly and changes colors whenever I edit /root/.bashrcMy root and user .bashrc are identical except for the colors:# Check for an interactive session [ -z "$PS1" ] && return alias ls='ls --color=auto' #PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' PS1='\[\e[1;33m\][\u @ \@ \w]\$ \[\e[0;32m\]'

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Can't change my user bash prompt color, while root prompt does work correctly and changes colors whenever I edit /root/.bashrcMy root and user .bashrc are identical except for the colors:# Check for an interactive session [ -z "$PS1" ] && return alias ls='ls --color=auto' #PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' PS1='\[\e[1;33m\][\u @ \@ \w]\$ \[\e[0;32m\]'

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Can't change my user bash prompt color, while root prompt does work correctly and changes colors whenever I edit /root/.bashrcMy root and user .bashrc are identical except for the colors:# Check for an interactive session [ -z "$PS1" ] && return alias ls='ls --color=auto' #PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ ' PS1='\[\e[1;33m\][\u @ \@ \w]\$ \[\e[0;32m\]'

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I added this command to my root .bashrc file to add color to my prompt and to simplify its path portion to the lowest level directory,

Code: export PS1="\e[1;31m\u@\h:\W\$\e[m " and my bash prompt comes up ending with $ when I expected #. Also, occasionally, when I enter a command, part of that command becomes part of my prompt! If the following is a prompt and command,

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# # /etc/bash.bashrc #

# If not running interactively, don't do anything [[ $- != *i* ]] && return

# Create the prompt: Green for a normal user, RED for ROOT NORMAL="\[\e[0m\]" RED="\[\e[1;31m\]" GREEN="\[\e[1;32m\]" PS1="$GREEN\u[$NORMAL\w$GREEN]# $NORMAL" if [[ $EUID == 0 ]] ; then PS1="$RED\u[$NORMAL\w$RED]# $NORMAL" else

We used to type man to find out forgotten parameter of special command.However,there’s only single color in the long output of man command and we need to take a hard look at on it.Here we can try to get colors in man page by edit .bashrc file. Open .bashrc with your favourite editor:

gedit ~/.bashrc

add following into the end:

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to configure Bash so that STDERR can be a different color than STDOUT?

In bash, the only color I know how to modify is the prompt, using \[ and \].

I found the problem.These lines of code in my ".xinit" file that allow me to enter Japanese text were the problem:# Setup SCIM for Japanese input export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" export QT_IM_MODULE="scim" scim -f x11 -c simple -dI'll comment them out for now. Lately I reconfigure Openbox much more often than I type Japanese.

On one of my Ubuntu 11.10 servers, when I use sudo -i to become the root user, root's .bashrc is not being executed.