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6 Style Options ¶

In this category you’ll find various options regarding the prompt style and colors.

Basic ¶

Setting: use_bashstyle Use BashStyle-NG ¶

This is the master switch that will let BashStyle-NG modify your prompts according to your choices in the Style and Advanced Options. Other categories have their own master switches and work independently.

Setting: enable_colors Colored Prompts ¶

If active the user will be presented with fancy colorful prompts, else the they will be monochrome. For terminals that can handle 256 (or more) colors a variety of different shades of blue, green, red and more are pre-defined and used. If on a terminal that can’t handle those (eg. the Linux console) those shades are set to their base color (so all shades of blue become the default blue and so on), thus ensuring full compatibility with all terminals.

Setting: Colors ¶

BashStyle-NG provides the following color definitons

• black
• red
• green
• yellow
• blue
• magenta
• cyan
• white

for all terminals. The following color definitions are only available on terminals that support 256 (or more) colors, else they are definied to the closest match from the above list.

• coldblue
• smoothblue
• iceblue
• turqoise
• smoothgreen
• winered
• brown
• silver
• ocher
• orange
• purple
• pink
• cream

For prompt parts the following variables are declared that contain one of the color definitions for easier re-coloring of the prompts

• color_user
• color_host
• color_date
• color_time
• color_wdir
• color_font
• color_separator
• color_uptime
• color_ps
• color_ps2
• color_ps3
• color_ps4

All of the above definitions are available in echo -e friendly varaints with a prepended e, for example ewhite or eiceblue. For LS_COLORS compatibility they are prepended with a l, for example lred or lorange.

Setting: dark_terminal Dark Terminal Background ¶

If this is enabled black/eblack will turn white, so the text stays visible, if this is disabled then white/ewhite will black instead.

Colors ¶

Setting: colorshell Randomly colored text ¶

The user input at the prompt will be colored with a random color after every prompt reload.

Setting: colorshell_reset Normal text color for output ¶

The Randomly colored text option will not reset the color before any command’s output is display. This can be achieved by activating this option.

Setting: color_style Choose Color Style ¶

Bash is capable of drawing the colors in different ways

• Normal
• Bright (equals to bold)
• Dimmed
• Inverted
• Underlined

Your choice here effects a all prompt styles and most scripts provided by BashStyle-NG.

Setting: color_font Color for Text ¶

This sets the color for the for text (ignored if random colored text is enabled)

Setting: color_date Color for Date ¶

This sets the color for the date in prompts.

Setting: color_time Color for Time ¶

This sets the color for the time in prompts.

Setting: color_user Color for Username ¶

This sets the color for the username in prompts.

Setting: color_host Color for Hostname ¶

This sets the color for the hostname in prompts.

Setting: color_wdir Color for Workdir ¶

This sets the color for the current directory in prompts.

Setting: color_uptime Color for Uptime ¶

This sets the color for the machine’s uptime in prompts.

Setting: color_separator Color for Separators ¶

This sets the color for prompt parts that separate the other prompt parts from each other.

Setting: color_ps Color for Misc. Elements ¶

This sets the color for misc. prompt parts, like external command output.

Setting: color_ps0 Color for PS0 ¶

This sets the color for the PS0 sub prompt.

Setting: color_ps2 Color for PS2 ¶

This sets the color for the PS2 sub prompt.

Setting: color_ps3 Color for PS3 ¶

This sets the color for the PS3 sub prompt.

Setting: color_ps4 Color for PS4 ¶

This sets the color for the PS4 sub prompt.

Style ¶

Setting: prompt_style Choose Promptstyle ¶

This sets the prompt style for PS1, one of

• Separator
• Vector
• Floating Clock
• Equinox
• Elite
• Poweruser
• Dirks
• Dot.Prompt
• Sepa-NG
• Quirk
• Sputnik
• Ayoli
• None

Use None if you want to leave PROMPT_COMMAND and PS1 unset, eg.: when using something else, like Liquid Prompt to create the prompt.

Setting: random_style Use random style ¶

This sets a random prompt style for PS1 from the list of available styles on each new Bash session.

Setting: colored_ls Colored ls output ¶

The ls command allows for colored output according to the LS_COLORS environment variable. Activating this will colorify ls output, respectively enforcing it to be monochrome. Overrides operating system default.

Setting: ps0 PS0 ¶

The character(s) to use to indicate PS0 (displayed by interactive shells after reading a command and before the command is executed).

Setting: ps2 PS2 ¶

The character(s) to use to indicate PS2 (continuation prompt).

Setting: ps3 PS3 ¶

The character(s) to use to indicate PS3 (prompt for select command).

Setting: ps4 PS4 ¶

The character(s) to use to indicate PS4 (execution trace prompt).

Setting: separator Separator ¶

The character(s) used in several prompt styles to separate different prompt parts.

Setting: pwdcut PWD cut char ¶

The character(s) used to indicate that the current working directory has been truncated due it’s length in the PS1 prompt.

Setting: pwd_len Maximum PWD length ¶

The maximum length of the current working directory before it gets truncated to it’s length in the PS1 prompt. Applies to both prompt styles and the truncpwd Bash script.

Separator ¶

The following settings only apply to the Separator prompt style.

Setting: files_amount Display number of files ¶

Display number of visible files in the current working directory in the prompt.

Setting: uptime Display uptime ¶

Display the machine’s uptime in the prompt.

Setting: files_size Display size of files ¶

Display the size of visible files in the current working directory in the prompt.

Setting: tty Display number of the tty ¶

Display the terminal device in the prompt (prettified).

Setting: processes Display number of running jobs ¶

Display the number of running jobs in the prompt.

Setting: load Display system load ¶

Display load average for the last five minutes in the prompt.

Setting: battery_load Display battery load ¶

Display the battery load status using ACPI in the prompt.

Setting: mem Display Memory ¶

Display the RAM status, either

• Free Memory
• Used Memory
• Both

in the prompt.

Equinox ¶

The following settings only apply to the Equinox prompt style.

Setting: equinox_systemload Display system load ¶

Display load average for the last five minutes in the prompt.

Setting: equinox_cpuload Display CPU load ¶

Display current CPU load in the prompt.

Setting: equinox_proc Display number of running jobs ¶

Display the number of running jobs in the prompt.

Setting: equinox_ram Display Memory ¶

Display the RAM status (free and used) in the prompt.

Setting: equinox_lastcmd Display last command ¶

Display last run command and whether it was executed succesful or not in the prompt.

Setting: equinox_uptime Display uptime ¶

Display the machine’s uptime i

Setting: equinox_git Display git repo information uptime ¶

Displays the branch, revision and action of a git repository, if the current directory is the root directory of a git repositor.