RFC: root/non-root bash prompts different colours?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 09 décembre 2004 à 11:44 -0500, Frank Pineau a écrit :
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:38 -0500, Nick Bargnesi wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This is the best idea yet, drop the whole idea of altering the prompt
> > and stick any warnings inside kde, gnome, and xfce.  I can't say I
> > would want my fedora installations to warn me about using root though.
> > 
> 
> FWIW, the only reason I change my prompt is so that when I have multiple
> terminal sessions open, some root, some non-, I can more easily
> distinguish between them.  I found that the # wasn't enough to catch my
> eye.  It doesn't really serve as a warning to me that I'm in a root
> session, it's more just an identifier.

Well if we restrict the problem to modern gfx terminals, there are lots
of possibilities :
- background images
- yellow notification bar à la firefox
- etc, etc

This would take care of naïve users since they are not likely to dig out
an old term like rxvt or xterm and will stick to gnome-terminal/kterm

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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