On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 18:07 +0100, Stelian Iancu wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. I had Ubuntu installed on my laptop and I have installed FC5t3
> instead (I kept only my /home partition). Now, in every terminal I
> start, the prompt is bash-3.1$. However, this happens only for a normal
> user, for root, the prompt is root@hostname. What file do I have to
> modify in order to get a normal prompt also for the regular user?
>
The PS1 variable within your shell defines the prompt.
Mine for a regular user is
[jeff@eagle ~]$ echo $PS1
[\u@\h \W]\$
and for root is the same.
This is set by default for all users in /etc/bashrc
If you have it also defined in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile those will
take precedence over the /etc/bashrc definition and are often used to
customize the prompt per user.
> 2. I've installed gksu for easy access to nautilus. When I want to
> execute it, I get this (after entering the root password):
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> (nautilus:2571): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> What do I have to do to make it work?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> S.
>
