How to change prompt and keep colors?

[givihuda]

After logging into WSL, I get the nice color prompt, but it says my name computer name in it, like this:

my_first_name@AB1234:~$

I found a way to adjust this basically:

# On /home/wsl/.profile export PS1="\D{%Y-%m-%d-%I:%M%p} \u@$WSL_DISTRO_NAME: "
From: https://alexanderallen.medium.com/customizing-my-wsl-bash-prompt-374daf85a7ae

However, it strips the colors and other things so it ends up like this:

me@Ubuntu:

It blends in too much with everything else, and doesn't show things like pathing - like ~/.cache$ - and I'm not seeing how to just change the username and computer name but keep the rest of the look/behavior intact.

[zcobol]

Look into .bashrc file located in your home directory for PS1 prompt settings:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

Look at \033[01;32m which is an escape sequence, with \033[ being CSI (control sequence introducer) and 32 is ANSI green. There's a good intro at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

Your prompt PS1="\D{%Y-%m-%d-%I:%M%p} \u@$WSL_DISTRO_NAME: has no colors defined.