I'm a newbie here. Someone suggested me to bring up my problem here (it's already solved). So here I am.
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: strange characters in Xterm (in > X-window) > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:26:15 -0500 > > Very interesting. I don't use X windows under > Cygwin so > I would not have noticed this fact myself. This is > something > that makes sense to bring up on the cygwin-xfree > list, assuming > it hasn't been discussed there already. That list > deals with > issues that are X specific. > > Larry > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Quan Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:43:47 -0800 (PST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: strange characters in Xterm (in > X-window) > > > If I remove the PS1 variable setting in > /etc/profile, > the problem goes away. But my prompt becomes > "bash-2.05b$" instead of the current directory I'm > in. > And I checked /etc/passwd file, I didn't see any > /bin/sh, they are all /bin/bash. So I didn't change > that file. > And then I found out that the problem is in the > startx > script. If I change the first line from "#!bin/sh" > to > "#!bin/bash", and leave the PS1 setting as it was in > /etc/profile, I got my informative prompt back in > Cygwin window while the annoying code in X-window's > terminals went away. Yeah~~~~~! > Thanks for your help! > > -Quan > --- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're running /bin/sh as your shell but have bash > > specific escape sequences in your prompt. Change > > your > > prompt (/etc/profile, ~/.profile, etc) or change > > your > > shell (/etc/passwd) to /bin/bash. > > > > Larry > > > > Original Message: > > ----------------- > > From: Quan Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:42:16 -0800 (PST) > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window) > > > > > > After I started x-windows. There are strange extra > > characters on the top of every window (login, > > xterm) > > which look like the following: > > \[\033]0;\w\007 > > \022[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] > > > > These two lines will show up again after each > > command > > I execute in the xterm window. > > > > They look like terminal control code, but how and > > why > > are they displayed in my window? And how do I get > > rid > > of them? > > > > BTW, although I'm using the English verison of > > WindowsXP, I set the region (in control panel) to > > China to be able to view and input Chinese. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > > now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > > http://mail2web.com/ . > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up > now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com