# man > byobu-enable-prompt(1)

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## NAME
       byobu-prompt,  byobu-enable-prompt, byobu-disable-prompt - add and remove a nice color prompt
       with a previous command timer to your shell configuration


## SYNOPSIS
### byobu-prompt

### byobu-enable-prompt

### byobu-disable-prompt


## DESCRIPTION
       Byobu provides a special PS0 and PS1 prompt command, compatible with Bash  shells.   It  will
       display  the previous command's total runtime and exit code, if it's not zero.  It will use 3
       separate colors for the local username, hostname, and the current working directory.

       **byobu-enable-prompt **will add one line to your _~/.bashrc_.

       You can safely remove the line from your _~/.bashrc_, which ends in **#byobu-prompt**.

       **byobu-disable-prompt **will remove its color configuration from _~/.bashrc_.

       **byobu-prompt **is an interactive wrapper of the previous two tools.


## BUGS
       This is currently only compatible with [**bash(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/bash/1/markdown)**.


## SEE ALSO
       [**bash**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/bash/1/markdown)
### <http://byobu.org>


## AUTHOR
       This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <<kirkland@byobu.org>> for  Ubuntu
       systems (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify
       this  document  under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the
       Free Software Foundation.

       The complete text of the GNU General Public License can  be  found  in  _/usr/share/common-li‐_
       _censes/GPL_ on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in _/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL_ on Fedora sys‐
       tems, or on the web at _<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt_>.

byobu                                      16 January 2024                           [_byobu-prompt_(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/byobu-prompt/1/markdown)