~~This page replaces what was previously “Make the console have a transparent black background/Konsole Background Settings”, last modified by neil1952~~

Konsole has a black background in easy mode and a white background in advanced mode. To change it to a black semi-transparent one:

1. Open the console either with CTRL-ALT-t (easy mode) or from Applications→system→console (advanced mode).
2. Click Settings→configure console→Schema.
3. In the schema box, choose 'Transparent dark background'
4. Check the 'Set as default schema' box
5. Use ALT-click to drag the dialogue up so you can click 'Apply', then 'OK'.
6. You may need to close console and reopen it to see the changes.

Here is a very well written guide to changing the default bash prompt: http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/Bash-Prompt/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html#toc6

If thats a bit much, then the following is short guide to make your prompt look like this in yellow: ”/etc/X11 # ”. I.E. displaying just the working directory and a hash. Xandros uses a format similar to this, but eeeXubuntu for example uses something like “username@machinename-workingdirectory-$”, which takes up lots of room on a small screen if the first part never changes!

The following guide should work in any distribution, and set your prompt to yellow “workingdirectory # ”.

1. First make a backup of your original .bashrc file like so:

   cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak

2. If you mess up then you can put everything back to normal with

   cp ~/.bashrc.bak ~/.bashrc

3. Open a terminal and type

   mousepad ~/.bashrc

4. The parts we want to customise are lines starting with PS1. We want to comment them all out and replace them with something like

   PS1="\[\033[1;33m\]\w #\[\033[0m\] "

5. In eeeXubuntu I had to make sure the following was commented out with hashes (some already was):

   # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
   #case "$TERM" in
   #xterm-color)
   #    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
   #    ;;
   #*)
   #    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
   #    ;;
   #esac
   
   # Comment in the above and uncomment this below for a color prompt
   #PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

6. Save your changes and open a new terminal. The prompt should have changed! Well done!