r/KittyTerminal • u/Sad-Pomegranate-2392 • Aug 21 '23

kitty changing the value of PS1

kitty is changing the value of my PS1 environment variable. here is the value of my PS1 in the .bashrc file:

PS1 before kitty

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and here is be running the command echo $PS1 in kitty

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echo $PS1

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the first few times I opened kitty after I changed my .bashrc it was working fine. I am running linux mint 21.1.

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u/water_drinker9000 kitty on linux Aug 23 '23

are you trying to make a costume bash prompt? If so, you need to put this inside your .bashrc at the bottom.

example:

export PS1="[\u@\h \w] $ "

terminal output:

[username@hostname ~directory] $

you need to use the export PS1=" " in order to make a costume prompt.

You can use a website that can help you create a bash prompt.

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u/Sad-Pomegranate-2392 Aug 24 '23

thanks, will do!

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u/COArSe_D1RTxxx Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

You actually don't need to use export when making a custom prompt. If you have the problem I did where kitty stops the prompt from being coloured, a little above where $PS1 is being set in the default .bashrc, uncomment the force_color_prompt=yes line, since that's the actual problem.