X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: Username and Computer Name Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:55:44 -0500 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <20120514161909.19662fbvx7uv2mrx@www.kalani.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 In-Reply-To: <20120514161909.19662fbvx7uv2mrx@www.kalani.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 5/14/2012 4:19 PM, max@kalani.com wrote: > I am installing cygwin on a new computer and I was told that the green > "username@computername ' " is supposed to be hidden, and that I somehow > installed Cygwin improperly. That's not true, whoever told you that is either joking or making fun at your expense. > Could someone please explain how to hide or setup cygwin properly to not > show this? You can change it any way you want, its part of the shell prompt, controlled by environment variable PS1 (and PROMPT_COMMAND for the window title). -- René Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple