Changing the long name on Terminal

[JayLefler]

Hi,

When I open the terminal I get the following long name:

user@parallels-Parallels-Virtual-Platform:

Is there a way I can change the part after the use name to something much shorter? like maybe just "parallels" by itself.

Thanks,
Jay

 

[JEarles]

Which distro did you install? If you installed Ubuntu you should be able to change it by updating two files. Follow these steps:

1) Open a terminal (control-option T)
2) sudo gedit /etc/hostname (change hostname to parallels, and save)
3) sudo gedit /etc/hosts (change hostname associated with 127.0.1.1 to parallels, and save)
4) sudo reboot now (restart your system)

 

[JayLefler]

Which distro did you install? If you installed Ubuntu you should be able to change it by updating two files. Follow these steps:

1) Open a terminal (control-option T)
2) sudo gedit /etc/hostname (change hostname to parallels, and save)
3) sudo gedit /etc/hosts (change hostname associated with 127.0.1.1 to parallels, and save)
4) sudo reboot now (restart your system)

Thank you sir, that greatly expands my terminal real estate