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[William S. <bs...@pa...>]

I recently received this email from inquisitive reader Dermot:HiI was
going through your website http://linuxcommand.org tonight and find it
really easy to follow how the commands and descriptions are laid out. I
have a question about the screenshots you use.The terminal screenshots
have a black background, with "[me@llinuxbox me}$" in green and the
commands to be run in white. How did you get this colour scheme? Ive
been asking on Ubuntuforums and other forums, as it would really make
the lines on which you enter commands stand out against the output
results of those commands.Please get back to me if you get a
chance.ThanksDermotIrelandThanks Dermot for taking the time to write.
The "screen shots" you refer to aren't actually screen shots at all.
They're implemented in hand-coded HTML and CSS, but you can create the
same effect on your own system. Here's how:The contents of your prompt
are defined in an shell variable called PS1. You can examine its
contents like this:me@linuxbox ~$ echo
$PS1${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$This example is from an
Ubuntu system. Other distributions will be different. Current Profile
dialog in gnome-terminal to set the color scheme to "White on
black":Next, you need to add some ANSI color codes to the prompt string
contained in PS1. To change the prompt to green and then back to its
original colors (so that subsequent text will remain white), you need
to change the prompt string to
this:\033[0;32m${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$\[\033[0m\]You
can test your prompt by setting the PS1 variable this way:me@linuxbox
~$
PS1="\033[0;32m${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$\[\033[0m\] "After
you are satisfied with the new prompt design, you can make it permanent
by adding these two lines to your .bashrc
file:PS1="\033[0;32m${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$\[\033[0m\] "export
PS1Hope this helps!You can read more about configuring the prompt at
the Linux Documentation Project. They have an excellent HOWTO document
entitled:The Bash-Prompt HOWTO

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Posted By William Shotts to LinuxCommand.org: Tips, News And Rants at
3/02/2009 07:04:00 PM