How do I change the colour of the prompt text in terminal emulators

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 22.11.2019, 16:52 +0000 schrieb Bret Busby:
> Hello.
> 
> I am running UbuntuMATE 16.04.x amd 19.10, on different computers.
> 
> In recent system updates, little green men infested my computers,
> and,
> changed the text in the prompts in the terminal emulators (mate
> terminal) to a lime green colour, which, on a white background, is
> like having yellow on white.
> 
> Also, on my 16.04 system, the spacing has been changed, so it is now
> <character><space<character><space><character>, etc.
> 

this particular issue sounds more like a font issue (i.e. using a non
monospace font in a terminal emulator that can only display monospace)

> I have downloaded and installed, using synaptic, every terminal
> emulator that I could find, and, they all have this awful green
> colour
> of the text of the prompts.
> 
> How do I change the text colour, so that, with a white background,
> the
> text is black, and, in terminal emulators that have a black
> background, the text is white?
> 
> In the terminal emulator, is Edit -> Preferences, but, that allows
> the
> changing of the font and colour of only the text entered and the
> background, but, not the colour of the text of the prompt.
> 
> Thank you in anticipation.
> 

while there should be some hints about how to manage the prompt at:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CustomizingBashPrompt

the color scheme of your shell itself is typically not touched by any
apps (unless you ran some random scripts from the internet... normally
debian packages respect to not touch ~/.bashrc) so i'd look after what
theme packages got updated recently that might have changed this on a
system level.

ciao
	oli
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