this is my default gnome terminal
[not ptyxis]
under fedora 41 workstation
it says
bash-5.2$
is this correct?
I remember that in fedora 40 workstation
it wrote something different
What echo $PS1 says?
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Added f41
Here is list of interesting articles about different shells you can use in your Fedora terminal
- Fish - A Friendly Interactive Shell - Fedora Magazine (I use this and it saves me ton of typing and brain space my remembering last commands and options)
- Set up zsh on your Fedora system - Fedora Magazine
- Add power to your terminal with powerline - Fedora Magazine
- Use tmux for a more powerful terminal - Fedora Magazine
- Tuning your bash or zsh shell on Fedora Workstation and Silverblue - Fedora Magazine
Here is an example of a tweaked PS1 variable: Fedora 39 bash prompt now displays exit codes - #5 by computersavvy
@augenauf the point is that by default, the prompt that @ninos have got in such window shouldn’t be like that.
The default one is username@hostname:~$
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Exactly!
But why is it like this?
How can I correct it?
I am aware of that, I just wanted to throw in some links to make even more out of the terminal.
that is…
- \u – Username
- \h – Hostname
- \W – basename of $PWD, with $HOME abbreviated with a tilde.
see Bash Reference Manual for all options and tweak.
your PS1 (“primary prompt string”) seems to be reset to : \s-\v\$ (that’s bash’s default).
what’s the output of the command @alciregi posted?
to change it to what you want, you want to do: export PS1="\u@\h: \W$ "
to make this permanent, do
echo 'export PS1="\u@\h: \W$ "' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
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before
echo $PS1
\s-\v$
bash-5.2$
after
bash-5.2$ echo ‘export PS1="\u@\h: \W$ "’ >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
emmanuelninos@fedora: ~$
ok this is what I wanted!
the same [emmanuelninos@fedora: ~$ ]
appears now
both on my default gnome terminal
&
on the ptyxis terminal
(which I installed from flathub)
when I turned on my laptop to do the Tuesday update,
bash-5.2$ appeared again in the default terminal
I repeated your advice:
bash-5.2$ export PS1=“\u@\h: \W$ "
emmanuelninos@fedora: ~$ echo 'export PS1=”\u@\h: \W$ "’ >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
emmanuelninos@fedora: ~$
but how can I make the change permanent?
GNOME Terminal works fine by default.
Your configs must be broken, that’s why it fails.
Here’s a way to restore the defaults:
dconf reset -f /org/gnome/terminal/
cp -f -a /etc/skel/. ~
. .bash_profile
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