Changed default user and now colors don't work Ubuntu

Question

Working in Ubuntu, windows terminal, WSL, using Linux:

So I recently asked two questions:

1. How to bring the colors back to the terminal for a new user
2. How to change the default user

I solved the first question by creating /home//.bashrc, which didn't previously exist. Copied .bashrc from /etc/skel, and bam, it worked. But then, I solved question 2. Just went into cmd.exe and did: ubuntu2004 config --default-user

And my default login is my new user. But now, the terminal is flat white text again! What can I do to get my colors back without having to source /home//.bashrc every time?

Thanks y'all.

Answer 1

WSL starts an interactive login shell; by default, that reads ~/.profile (or ~/.bash_profile if it exists and your user's login shell is set to bash) in preference to ~/.bashrc.

In Ubuntu, the default ~/.profile then sources ~/.bashrc (if it detects that the shell is bash) so that you get the same environment as an interactive non-login shell.

So what's missing is that you need to copy /etc/skel/.profile to your new user's home directory as well as /etc/skel/.bashrc

Note that if you'd used adduser to create the new user, files in /etc/skel would normally have been copied to the new user's home directory by default.

Answer 2

wsl ubuntu 20.04 if you want to set color to root user.

xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;; #line number 33 in my case.

xterm-color|*-256color) color_prompt=yes;; #add this line in .bashrc