Re: A couple of questions

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 18:07 +0100, Stelian Iancu wrote:
Hello all,

A couple of questions:

1. I had Ubuntu installed on my laptop and I have installed FC5t3
instead (I kept only my /home partition). Now, in every terminal I
start, the prompt is bash-3.1$. However, this happens only for a normal
user, for root, the prompt is root@hostname. What file do I have to
modify in order to get a normal prompt also for the regular user?

The PS1 variable within your shell defines the prompt.
Mine for a regular user is
[jeff@eagle ~]$ echo $PS1
[\u@\h \W]\$
and for root is the same.

This is set by default for all users in /etc/bashrc
If you have it also defined in ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile those will
take precedence over the /etc/bashrc definition and are often used to
customize the prompt per user.

2. I've installed gksu for easy access to nautilus. When I want to
execute it, I get this (after entering the root password):

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

(nautilus:2571): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

What do I have to do to make it work?

Many thanks!

S.


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