Beauty and the Beast - any beast IN (Dockstar, GoGlex Net/Home, Pogo E02, ...) is ok

Hi everyone,

while trying to fool around with the LEDs on my POGO E02, I stumbled upon a blog post by Obihörnchen and had a look at paragraph 13: "Enable color in Bash prompt". ---> WOW, I thought, this really does look nice. But why should the Archlinux guys have all the fun?

So the next thing I did was google for debian ASCII art in order to replace the (amazing) ALARM logo, only to find out that there is indeed something even better for debian: a package called linuxlogo!

First action, therefore, is:

apt-get install linuxlogo
# try it
linuxlogo

So far, so good.

Then, I modified the bash.bashrc from Obihörnchen and copied his DIR_COLORS and put both of them in /etc.

This then looks much better already. However, I still get all the boring stuff like the copyright message from motd. But, for this Thomas Hunter provided a christmas present. So, I emptied out the file /etc/motd (which physically is /var/run/motd) and that was another step forward. Then another little modification of bash.bashrc as suggested in the above mentioned post. This gives the final result: BEAUTIFUL (in my eyes).

I've provided the two files I use for the colors and the bash resources along with a screenshot, so you can check whether this is for you.

Enjoy!

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Very nice :) Thanks for sharing!

Not sure what I am doing wrong, but the "--->" doesn't get displayed. Check the attached screenshot.

Just an idea: could it be the keyboard layout? Also, I noticed that the background of the logo in your case is solid black while in my case it is a dark gray. What happens after a reboot? Other than that: no idea, sorry.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2013 03:16AM by chessplayer.

@varkey,

I bet you use putty to access to your device. Apparently putty does not support the code for characters used for the "-->".

I sees the arrow when I access my device via ssh from another Linux machine but see what you saw if I access the same device from putty.

Hi guys,

this, however, is also strange. If you look at the picture in the post by Obihörnchen, it sure looks like he also uses putty. On the other hand, the bash.bashrc for the Archlinux case does not include calling something like linuxlogo, so maybe that messes things up for putty?

But then again, who wants to use M$-OSes on their main computer anyway?

Cheers,

chessplayer

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That would be caused by font which may be set by the locale.

It was the character encoding setting in putty. Changed it to UTF and everything displayed correctly.

http://thegreyblog.blogspot.in/2009/08/configuring-putty-to-use-utf-8.html