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From the time I use Linux, the prompt ends with # for root and with $ for common users.

On the latest LTS version, this changed to > for common users under Byobu.

Question 1: Why?

Question 2: How to fix it, without manually messing with $PS1?

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  • You might need to address this to the Byobu people. They have a stack exchange at stackexchange.com/search?q=byobu Jul 10, 2014 at 19:06
  • @CharlesGreen - with that all you really get it the tag at SuperUser and the one here....
    – Wilf
    Jul 10, 2014 at 19:15
  • Huh. That's the link I found at the byobu support website. byobu.co/support.html Jul 10, 2014 at 19:17
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    I'm happy to answer Byobu questions here, or on any other StackExchange site. I actively monitor all of them for questions tagged 'bybou'. Jul 10, 2014 at 19:41
  • Thanks @DustinKirkland. I asked here because I saw lots of answers with "Full disclosure: I am the author and maintainer of Byobu.", so asking here seemed acceptable.
    – alanjds
    Jul 10, 2014 at 19:54

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You can trivially disable (or enable) Byobu's custom prompt by running:

byobu-disable-prompt

and

byobu-enable-prompt

To answer your question, "why?", I direct you to this blog post where I introduced the functionality:

Full disclosure: I am the author and maintainer of Byobu.

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  • I ended up changing here directly. I would expect it to be optional anyway. Well, thanks for the blogpost link.
    – alanjds
    Jul 10, 2014 at 20:06

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