wsltty console doesn't have the colors on user prompt

[RowanSkie]

After I updated to 2.5.0.2, and found that the colors in the user prompt disappeared. Is it normal?

[Biswa96]

Run echo $PS1 in wsltty and wsl in command prompt window. Are those same?

[RowanSkie]

Apparently not.

[Biswa96]

Then there is some issue with .bashrc or .bash_profile or .profile files in user's home folder ~

[RowanSkie]

Apparently wsltty don't count as a color-applicable terminal, so I uncommented force_color_prompt.

[mintty]

Don't know what your latest comment refers to. Mintty supports all colour operations fully and nothing has changed.

[RowanSkie]

Just my Ubuntu install, then most likely. A false alarm.

[Davidius86]

I got the same issue, reason is that I carry over an old .bashrc which contains:

case "$TERM" in
    xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;;
esac

usually the var TERM should contains
xterm-color
of
xterm-256color

However for wsltty the default value is
xterm
which will render the console without color.

To fix this right click into your console, go to "Options", select "Terminal" in drop down "Type" switch from "xterm" to "xterm-256color".

[mintty]

Instead of trying to propagate the TERM environment variable, the config setting TERM is now propagated into WSL environment variable HOSTTERM, so the WSL init scripts can detect and use it at their discretion. See also #278.