Re: coloured prompt for root (was ... Re: Reporting missing package during install)
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:13:18PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Chris Bannister writes:
>
> > This is in a tty, so don't know what will happen in an xterm or other
> > virtual terminal.
>
> The virtual terminals usually honour ANSI escape sequences. For sure
> xterm, the rxvt family and the libvte-based ones do.
>
> But with virtual terminals you can do something like having a
> different background and foreground color (red on black is standard in
> my family).
Same on a tty. man setterm
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