Colorful prompt

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/.bashrc b/.bashrc
index 3246c0d..23e7e84 100644
--- a/.bashrc
+++ b/.bashrc
@@ -113,9 +113,16 @@ if [[ "$MY_SHELL" =~ "bash" ]]; then
 
     export PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"
 
-    # Cache this instead of using \h to avoid the hostname lookup
-    # on every line. This can be really slow on a slow connection.
-    export PS1="\t \u@$(hostname -s) \W \$ "
+    # Cache user and host instead of using \h and \u to avoid the hostname and
+    # username lookup on every line. This can be really slow on a slow
+    # connection or on systems running SSSD.
+
+    # Old simple version
+    #export PS1="\t $(whoami)@$(hostname -s) \W \$ "
+
+    # Colorful version (colors are for my normal stterm scheme, not ASCII)
+    [[ $UID == 0 ]]; _pcolor="91" || _pcolor="92"
+    export PS1="\t \[\e[${_pcolor};1;49m\]$(whoami)@$(hostname -s) \W \[\e[33;1;49m\]$ \[\e[39;0;49m\]"
 
     load_all_from "$HOME/.bash_completion.d"