> On 2015-01-02 19:17, joe@actionline.com wrote: >> How can I change the command line prompt from the current: >> "joe@joe-dell-Inspiron-3542:>" >> to just: "joe:>" On 2015-01-02 18:31, Keith Smith wrote: > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell-setup-prompt.html To expand on what others have written, that's: export PS1='\u:>' in your ~/.bashrc . This is *not* optimal though. It'd be far more useful to do something like export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' ...since you usually know who you are, but you might not know which machine you're logged in to, and having the full path to the dir you're in is almost always useful if you have more than one dir that's named the same thing. >> Also, I'd like to be able to turn the touchpad off and on >> but the only suggested method I have found to do this >> does not work for me: synclient TouchpadOff=1 Hm. This works fine for me, but I'm using Gentoo, and other distros may do different things with the X modules for various input devices. For synclient to work, IIRC, the X server has to load the synaptics module, and the synaptics module has to claim the touchpad device. -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss