---
name: "byobu-disable-prompt"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "byobu"
version: "5.133-1.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/byobu-prompt"
---

# byobu-disable-prompt(1)

add and remove a nice color prompt to your shell configuration

Part of [byobu-prompt(1)](/byobu-prompt/1.md).

## NAME

byobu-prompt, byobu-enable-prompt, byobu-disable-prompt - add and remove a nice color prompt to your shell configuration

## SYNOPSIS

**byobu-prompt**

- **byobu-enable-prompt**

  - **byobu-disable-prompt**

  ## DESCRIPTION

Byobu provides a special PS1 prompt command, compatible with Bash shells.  It will display the previous command's 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)](/bash/1.md)**.

## SEE ALSO

- [**bash**(1)](/bash/1.md)

  - **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-licenses/GPL* on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in */usr/share/doc/fedora-release-\*/GPL* on Fedora systems, or on the web at *http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt*.