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Hi All

 

How can I change the name in konsole from bash-3.2$ to [orts@localhost] $? like it was in the older versions of Mandriva.

 

I find this pretty annoying, because when I change to another directory, I can't see that I really are in the wanted directory.

If I'm logged in as admin in konsole I have the old "name" [root@localhost] # and can see which directory I'm working in at the time. like this [root@localhost orts] #

 

I really hope that someone can help me, this is the only thing that I find is wrong with Mandriva 2008.

 

 

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I'm not booted in Linux now, but this is usually set in .bash_profile from what I remember. I'll have to check my system when I next boot into it, unless someone beats me to it. Either that or /etc/profile or something.

 

It's a combination of prompt=$whatever, or similar to get that output you desire.

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Something like this:

 

if [ -n "${BASH_VERSION}" ]; then
	# Newer bash ebuilds include /etc/bash/bashrc which will setup PS1
	# including color.  We leave out color here because not all
	# terminals support it.
	if [ -f /etc/bash/bashrc ]; then
			# Bash login shells run only /etc/profile
			# Bash non-login shells run only /etc/bash/bashrc
			# Since we want to run /etc/bash/bashrc regardless, we source it
			# from here.  It is unfortunate that there is no way to do
			# this *after* the user's .bash_profile runs (without putting
			# it in the user's dot-files), but it shouldn't make any
			# difference.
			. /etc/bash/bashrc
	else
			PS1='\u@\h \w \$ '
	fi
else
	# Setup a bland default prompt.  Since this prompt should be useable
	# on color and non-color terminals, as well as shells that don't
	# understand sequences such as \h, don't put anything special in it.
	PS1="`whoami`@`uname -n | cut -f1 -d.` \$ "
fi

 

will do it. From my /etc/profile in Gentoo, but should more or less be the same. Compare your Mandriva distros. Alternatively look at the bashrc file.

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I have tried to compare /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile in Mandriva 2008.0 and Mandriva 2007.1.

And they look exactly alike, I really cant find anything written in another way.

 

Now I do belive the problem are somewhere els, any ideas?

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If you want to change "localhost" to something else, you have change your PC's host name in mcc, don't remember where exactly (i don't use mandriva), but it should be somewhere in network>>alter misc' network options.

 

P.S. I use a LAN connection so that might not work for you

 

here how it looks in PCLinuxOS:

 

Edited by ilia_kr
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Here's my entry in ~/.bashrc :

# customize prompt
PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\u \W $ \[\033[0m\]'

I don't care about localhost, that's where I always am, so I've just got username \u and working directory \W. The rest of it just makes the prompt yellow so it stands out from all the other text in the console.

 

This is assuming you do mean the command prompt, or do you really mean the title of the window?

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Thanks for all your help.

 

Of some reason the .bashrc file, didn't excist in my home folder, so I installed Mandriva 2007.1 in Virtualbox, and copied the .bashrc from 2007.1 to Mandriva 2008, and now it works. :D

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