I'm somewhat new to Bash prompts, but I was finally able to get things somewhat working. However, I have a strange character at the beginning of my prompt:
Here's my actual PS1 prompt:
PS1='\[\e]2;\u@\h\a${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\] ' Can anyone spot the problem? What am I doing wrong here?
You're missing the last \] to end the title bar sequence. The result is that it's eating up some chars & displaying a weird character at the front.
try one of these:
\[\033]2; \u@\h \007\]\[\e]0;\u@\h\a\]The start of your prompt has a fragment in it: \[\e]2;\ that should probably be something more like: \[e[0;32m\] to set the colour green.
\[ begins a sequence of non-printing characters. \e is the ascii escape character and the colour green is 0;32m
There is an excellent break down of the elements of a coloured prompt on the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt
