Cfrtjryk

I have no colors in my terminal on KDE Kubuntu 16.04.1.

here is my .bashrc (I copied it from an Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 but I always used this one also on former KUbuntu 12.04.)

# ~/.bashrc: executed by bash(1) for non-login shells.

# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)

# for examples



# If not running interactively, don't do anything

case $- in

    *i*) ;;

      *) return;;

esac



# don't put duplicate lines or lines starting with space in the history.

# See bash(1) for more options

HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth



# append to the history file, don't overwrite it

shopt -s histappend



# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)

HISTSIZE=1000

HISTFILESIZE=2000



# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,

# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.                                                                                                                     

shopt -s checkwinsize                                                                                                                                         



# If set, the pattern "**" used in a pathname expansion context will                                                                                          

# match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories.                                                                                            

#shopt -s globstar                                                                                                                                            



# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)                                                                                           

[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"                                                                                                  



# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)                                                                                  

if [ -z "${debian_chroot:-}" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then                                                                                             

    debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)                                                                                                                   

fi                                                                                                                                                            



# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)                                                                                              

case "$TERM" in

    xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;

esac



# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned

# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window

# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt

force_color_prompt=yes



if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then

    if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then

        # We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48

        # (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such

        # a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)

        color_prompt=yes

    else

        color_prompt=

    fi

fi



if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then

    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[]u[] @ []h[]:[]w[]$ '

else

    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}u@h:w$ '

fi

unset color_prompt force_color_prompt



# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir

case "$TERM" in

xterm*|rxvt*)

    PS1="[]$PS1"

    ;;

*)

    ;;

esac



# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases

if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then

    test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"

    alias ls='ls --color=auto'

    #alias dir='dir --color=auto'

    #alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'



    alias grep='grep --color=auto'

    alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'

    alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'

fi



# colored GCC warnings and errors

#export GCC_COLORS='error=01;31:warning=01;35:note=01;36:caret=01;32:locus=01:quote=01'



# some more ls aliases

alias ll='ls -alF'

alias la='ls -A'

alias l='ls -CF'



# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands.  Use like so:

#   sleep 10; alert

alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '''s/^s*[0-9]+s‍/;s/[;&|]s*alert$                                  //''')"'



# Alias definitions.

# You may want to put all your additions into a separate file like

# ~/.bash_aliases, instead of adding them here directly.

# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.



if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then

    . ~/.bash_aliases

fi



# enable programmable completion features (you don't need to enable

# this, if it's already enabled in /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/profile

# sources /etc/bash.bashrc).

if ! shopt -oq posix; then

  if [ -f /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion ]; then

    . /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion

  elif [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then

    . /etc/bash_completion

  fi

fi

I also tried this and this but I have no color in terminal nor via ssh though

> echo $TERM

xterm-color

Anyway the colored output of apt update or ls -a e.g. works

only not the prompt which I would expect to look like on the other server where I copied the .bashrc from and where it is working:

Is there something I'm missing? How can I get the colored prompt working? (Especially asking because I want my green and the root's red but none of both work)

I may be wrong, but I do not see any color-related syntax in your script

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}[]u[] @ []h[]:[]w[]$ '

When I call your code from my bash prompt

PS1='[]u[] @ []h[]:[]w[]$ '

I see just white letters. You do not even have export PS1, which means that this variable never affects anything outside the script. My guess is that on your old machine some other script was responsible for colors.

In order to get the colors, which you have posted, try to call the following from your terminal

PS1='[33[1;32m]u[33[0m] @ [33[0;32m]h[33[0m]:[33[31m]W[33[0m]$ '

if it works, put

export PS1='[33[1;32m]u[33[0m] @ [33[0;32m]h[33[0m]:[33[31m]W[33[0m]$ '

into your ~/.bashrc.