LQ Poll: What is your favorite Linux Prompt?

MeCrumbly429 · 04-12-2021, 03:20 PM

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why?

W4UF · 05-15-2021, 10:22 PM

I'm in the process of rescuing my information from the grips of MS Win 7. Been experimenting with Linux Mint for about 2 months. Currently working off of a full 20.1/Cinnamon install on a USB. Forgive me for not being more useful to this conversation. But I'm just happy to be HERE for now. I'm still trying to forget "C:'Backslash'". My best regards to each of you.

FrenchGuy · 05-16-2021, 01:43 AM

Welcome on board !

rogerxx · 05-16-2021, 05:18 PM

" ... I'm still trying to forget "C:'Backslash'" ... "

Funny as h*ll!

Bonzoo · 05-16-2021, 06:34 PM

Um. sudo apt purge firefox

Chris Rogiers · 08-03-2021, 05:50 PM

A white blank rectangle preceded by the username@hostname:~$.

On computers I share with my wife it tells me who is logged in and what computer I am on.

I mostly run a KDE Plasma desktop, but not necessarily always from the same computer, the same hard disk nor do they all have the same distro.

So I choose one of my own pictures as background and with GIMP I superimpose the name and version of the distro and the drive it is running from.

Chris

desertcat · 08-03-2021, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogerxx

" ... I'm still trying to forget "C:'Backslash'" ... "

Funny as h*ll!

HUMMMMMMMI remember those days back during both IBM and MS-DOS 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x => 6.22. Sadly I never could forget the > symbol.

How's your ASCII? Now here's a nifty bash prompt:

[ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\[\033[1;33m\]\u\[\033[1;36m\]@\h:\[\033[1;31m\]\w\[\033[1;32m\]]\[\033[1;35m\]/>\[\033[1;37m\]"

Have FUN!!

D'Cat

Elvis1357 · 08-03-2021, 07:16 PM

Well, almost 3 months now. Got Audacity installed but NO playback sound at all....still trying to find out.
Libre Office is good too.

rnturn · 08-03-2021, 11:47 PM

Code:

\u@\h:\W $       (Or '#' for root)

Including, of course, the necessary ANSI control sequences to set the prompt color (Red for root and Cyan for regular folk.)

rnturn · 08-04-2021, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GazL

Some folks will certainly find that useful. I really dislike it when you're getting deep in the filesystem hierarchy and your prompt is taking up over half the screen width.

Yeah. I used to have a nifty prompt that I set up for my accounts back in my VMS days that would limit the directory portion of the prompt to no more than than the last 10-12 characters or so or the default directory (the pwd in the Unixverse). I've never quite been able to duplicate it on UNIX/Linux. I use "\W" in my PS1 and it keeps things short by stripping off all but the last bit of the pwd which I don't care for. Does "bin" mean I'm in "$HOME/bin" or "/usr/local/bin"? (Now, having mentioned that, I'll probably wind up spending an hour working on that tomorrow. :^D )

desertcat · 08-04-2021, 03:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PaulvSchaik

Using a fancy zsh theme with this script:

Using a fancy zsh theme with this script:

Quote:
local return_code="%(?..%{$fg[red]%}%? ↵%{$reset_color%})"

if [[ $UID -eq 0 ]]; then
local user_host='%{$terminfo[bold]$fg[red]%}%n@%m %{$reset_color%}'
local user_symbol='#'
else
local user_host='%{$terminfo[bold]$fg[green]%}%n@%m %{$reset_color%}'
local user_symbol='$'
fi

local current_dir='%{$terminfo[bold]$fg[blue]%}%~ %{$reset_color%}'
local git_branch='$(git_prompt_info)'
local rvm_ruby='$(ruby_prompt_info)'
local venv_prompt='$(virtualenv_prompt_info)'

ZSH_THEME_RVM_PROMPT_OPTIONS="i v g"

PROMPT="╭─${user_host}${current_dir}${rvm_ruby}${git_branch}${venv_prompt}
╰─%B${user_symbol}%b "
RPROMPT="%B${return_code}%b"

ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX="%{$fg[yellow]%}‹"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX="› %{$reset_color%}"

ZSH_THEME_RUBY_PROMPT_PREFIX="%{$fg[red]%}‹"
ZSH_THEME_RUBY_PROMPT_SUFFIX="› %{$reset_color%}"

ZSH_THEME_VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT_PREFIX="%{$fg[green]%}‹"
ZSH_THEME_VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT_SUFFIX="› %{$reset_color%}"
ZSH_THEME_VIRTUALENV_PREFIX=$ZSH_THEME_VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT_PREFIX
ZSH_THEME_VIRTUALENV_SUFFIX=$ZSH_THEME_VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT_SUFFIX

It result is a 2 line colorful prompt with user, location and GIT info.

Ah!!! ZSH!! I switched from BASH to ZSH. I never knew there could be so many prompt themes. My current ZSH prompt is:

# Theme with full path names and hostname
# Handy if you work on different servers all the time;
PROMPT="[%B%F{cyan}%n%f@%F{red}%m%F{white}:%F{green}%~%F{white}%}]%F{magenta}%}/%F{yellow}%}>%F{white}"

D'Cat

enorbet · 08-16-2021, 12:38 PM

Way back in DOS days I was so enthused at PC as approaching a magic lamp Genii, and probably way over-estimating my own skills , I made my prompt say "Yes Master?" LOL

These days, in Linux, I'm happy with almost anything but substantially prefer it display username or root. I never use sudo so with "su" I like to see "root" in my prompt. Similarly I like running File Managers as root often so I setup very different color schemes for User and root so the difference becomes instinctive. It is a bonus if directory is listed but really not a requirement for me. If a prompt does, that's fine. If it doesn't, that's OK too.

felipeabrao · 12-19-2023, 09:00 AM

No preference.

SteveG_0001 · 12-19-2023, 02:07 PM

>

Simple.

SteveG_0001 · 12-19-2023, 02:12 PM

Reading the question a different way, my favorite. Prompt is...

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