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Enable Zsh prompt username

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So I just installed Zsh, and it shows for each command arrow and then ~. How do I enable my username@computername or something similar? I am reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/zsh but cannot figure this out.

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answered 2 Years ago peafowkes · Accepted Answer

The prompt is configured in your ~/.zshrc file setting the variable PROMPT. For example, to have your username and host followed by a "dynamic" %:

~ PROMPT="%n@%m%# "

romano@samsung-romano%

The whole set of customization is available in the, as ever, wonderful Arch documentation.

Anyway, I warmly advise the usage of liquidprompt --- notice that once installed it will install a mechanism to control the prompt so that changing the PROMPT variable will not work anymore.