2023-06-17 08:04:51 <veltas      > What PS1 does everyone use? I've been using '$ ' for a while now.
2023-06-17 09:03:43 <MrMobius    > what else would you use?
2023-06-17 09:04:13 <MrMobius    > someone recommended putting my battery level there when I was running my laptop with no GUI
2023-06-17 09:10:42 <thrig       > [[ -z "$SSH_CLIENT" ]] && PS1='$ '
2023-06-17 09:40:36 <MrMobius    > I changed the color so I know if I'm ssh'd in
2023-06-17 09:53:25 <thrig       > I disable colors at the xterm level
2023-06-17 10:40:19 <KipIngram   > I use $ as well - green.
2023-06-17 10:40:21 <KipIngram   > [kipingram@lenovo]$ echo $PS1
2023-06-17 10:40:23 <KipIngram   > \[$GREEN\][\u@\h]$\[$RESET\]
2023-06-17 10:40:49 <KipIngram   > My ok prompt is green as well.
2023-06-17 10:47:20 <veltas      > MrMobius: My server has 'b$ ' as the prompt (as the name of the server starts with a B)
2023-06-17 10:47:30 <veltas      > I tend to do that for things I usually access remotely
2023-06-17 10:48:25 <KipIngram   > I usually just use the screen or tmux status line to tell me what system I'm connected to.
2023-06-17 10:48:43 <KipIngram   > For remote systems, I generally want to just stay logged in, so I use mosh+screen/tmux.
2023-06-17 10:49:12 <thrig       > the tmux status line also got itself turned off
2023-06-17 10:49:43 <veltas      > It's quite ugly now that I think about it. I don't use tmux much other than for my IRC client
2023-06-17 10:50:00 <veltas      > I've not turned it off. I used to use screen, can't remember why I switched anymore
2023-06-17 11:08:02 <KipIngram   > I prefer the visual appearance of the screen status line.  Of course I know I can change them with either package, but I just haven't bothered to change tmux, and I have a screen status config I like that I just copy around.
2023-06-17 11:09:19 <KipIngram   > I don't like the way screen renames local windows every time I change directories - I turn that off in one of my profile files.
2023-06-17 11:09:31 <KipIngram   > I want to name them myself, and have them stay that way.
2023-06-17 11:38:33 <MrMobius    > It's easy to forget if you started ssh then TMUX or TMUX then ssh since they look identical
2023-06-17 11:38:43 <MrMobius    > Which is why I like the different colors
2023-06-17 11:39:24 <MrMobius    > I installed a bunch of octopi packages on my server accidentally the other day when I got things mixed up
2023-06-17 11:39:51 <MrMobius    > I should say TMUX looks identical to ssh then TMUX
2023-06-17 11:49:18 <KipIngram   > Yeah, on a couple of occasions I've bumped against that kind of thing.
2023-06-17 11:57:09 <KipIngram   > Also, I've never managed to get good at "screen within screen" or "tmux within tmux."  I know there's a way to do that successfully, but I've never honed the skill.  Instead I do screen within tmux or tmux within screen.
2023-06-17 11:57:22 <KipIngram   > And that's a rare need for me anyway.
2023-06-17 14:36:33 <unjust      > veltas, MrMobius: pretty late response, but that was me suggesting battery level
2023-06-17 14:40:32 <unjust      > i use: export PS1="\$(check-battery)% \u@\h:\w\$ "
2023-06-17 14:41:33 <unjust      > check_battery contains: echo $(( $(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_now) / ( $(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full) / 100 ) ))
2023-06-17 14:44:49 <unjust      > KipIngram: it's tedious at first, but you can get used to Ctrl+B Ctrl+B to target the nested tmux session, another option is to change the inner tmux hotkey to something different to what triggers the outer tmux session
2023-06-17 14:51:56 <unjust      > that prompt exists because i dislike desktop environments in general. i have fluxbox as my window manager configured to be rather bare - nothing besides the toolbar and 8 workspaces. but i always have a browser and multiple instances of xterm running. so the terminal prompt is the most convenient place for me to see some indication of the current charge level
2023-06-17 15:52:04 <MrMobius    > unjust: ah ok. thanks!
2023-06-17 20:45:39 <KipIngram   > I have a little window down in the bottom left corner of my console workspace that shows me current consumption, current charge / charge capacity, and percent charged.  It also shows fan rpm and my top five processes ranked by cpu consumption.
2023-06-17 20:45:48 <KipIngram   > It's about 2"x1.5"
2023-06-17 20:46:54 <KipIngram   > I decided to put it there when I took a look how my screen was already sliced up - it was a convenient size there for something like that.  My reminder system uses a similar height window just to the right.