ZSH Agnoster Theme showing machine name

Question

I have a development server hosted on Digital Ocean, using Ubuntu 14.04. I switched my shell to ZSH and decided to go with the Agnoster theme. In order to get user@hostname to stop showing, I set the DEFAULT_USER in my .zshrc file.

For some reason on the ubuntu server, that's not working. The hostname still shows, and will not go away. I'm doing the exact same thing on my Mac OSX, and it works fine.

Here are some screenshots:

Anyone know what's going on? I even tried DEFAULT_USER="$USER@$HOST" with no luck.

If I go back to the default, Robby Russell theme, it works just fine.

Answer 1

It is the feature according to this; when we are sshing, the hostname will be shown.

Overriding the function prompt_context or build_prompt on Agnoster theme will rescue. Putting below snippets at the very end of the ~/.zshrc for example.

# redefine prompt_context for hiding user@hostname prompt_context () { } 

Answer 2

Here is my version from first two answers. They explain very clearly. I will merge again.

1. step 1. open your .zshrc file by vim .zshrc

2. step 2. go to end of your file.

3. Paste this code:

careful indent again your code

prompt_context() {   if [[ "$USER" != "$DEFAULT_USER" || -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]]; then     prompt_segment black default "%(!.%{%F{yellow}%}.)$USER"   fi } 

Reference link: agnoster theme code

Hope this help :)