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color variable does not work with PS1 assignment in bashrc file
below is my current PS string in .bashrc
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[00;37m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;32m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[01;31m\] $(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\]\$
which works fine
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Changing bash terminal color and setting it back to default?
I found this command to change the background color to back:
echo -ne '\e]11;#000000\e\\'
So, how to I make it to change the default again?
Thanks :3
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Terminal won't display colors for non-root users
When I'm logged in as root, I can display colors, but not when I switch to another user.
The command ls --color=auto only displays colors once when logged as normal user.
I searched a lot and did a ...
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Change Lubuntu QTerminal text color?
I want to change my terminal text color, it's gray right now and I want to set it as white, if possible white bold.
I already try to find how to do that with this question, where I tried to edit the ....
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Changing the color of terminal text
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I mean changing the color of text I type, not user@server.
Have seen some other posts about it, but could not get it to work.
Want it permanent.
I already change the user@...
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Colors missing in Terminator but not terminal
My terminator won't show the colors like in my 'regular' terminal. I have written in my .bashrc that user is green, folder structure is blue and git repository is red (the git repository showing I ...
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Customize Colors for Bash Terminal
I found this nice color library called Solarize which promises to liven up my hacking experience with a color terminal.
I am not where to add the Solarize files to change. I found some instructions ...
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Changing shell colors: "dircolors -b command not found"
(Preface: I'm brand new to Linux.)
Problem
I'm trying to change to colors of the file system in the bash shell. I've altered my .bashrc file according to:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=...
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dircolors/ls not being displayed correctly under NTFS drive
I've been messing around with the colours of the files under the .dircolor file, and it worked perfectly under the Linux folders.
But whenever I try to ls to a NTFS folder all files are displayed ...
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Changing colors for user, host, directory information in terminal command prompt
Is it possible to change the colors in the command prompt for the user@computer, as well as the the current directory and command parts of the prompt display?
I've already seen something like this ...
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