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how to change display name and name of host pc in terminal

i mean, dont change the user name and name of host pc, i mean how to make it display not like "artix:[username]" in terminal, but for example "username@artix". I hope I've explained clearly

Re: how to change display name and name of host pc in terminal

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set PS1 variable in your shell rc
for example for bash you would add this line to ~/.bashrc
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PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$'
here is a cool website made for making bash prompts https://bash-prompt-generator.org/