Cosmetic shell changes between FC1 and FC3

[Alex Greg]

Hi,


I've recently migrated from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 3, and there 
are a few small but irritating changes that I'd like to revert back to 
the way they used to work:


1) The output columns from ls (1) are squashed together. While this 
might be useful for people who can only see 80 columns, I'm on a machine 
running X Windows at high resolution, so it's easier to read if there's 
more whitespace between the columns. I believe this change was made in 
an update to coreutils in Fedora Core 1?


2) When in my home directory, the prompt reads:

[testuser at desktop ~]$

rather than:

[testuser at desktop root]$

as it used to in FC1. Is there any way to change this back?


Regards,


-- Alex