On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:09 PM, <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:58:01PM +0000, der.hans wrote: > > Am 23. Jan, 2017 schwätzte S. P. Molnar so: > > > > moin moin Stephen, > > > > > > > >On 01/23/2017 01:38 PM, der.hans wrote: > > >>grep PS1 ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile ~/.profile > > > > > >Thanks for the answers. > > > > > >I thought that i had the solution. Grep showed me that ps1 was > > >only in .bashrc. After making a copy of .bashrc I removed the > > >entire if ... fi section that contained PS1. > > > > > >I added PS1="\u@\h >" to the end of .bashrc and sourced the file - > > >it worked, in that terminal. However, if I open a new terminal > > >(I'm using xfce4-terminal) the prompt is back to the corrupted > > >one! > > > > Ah, xfce might have a(n annoying) default setting. KDE had a similar > > problem for a while. If so searching your home dir for the change won't > > help as the default was either in a system config file or baked into the > > binaries. > > > > XFCE has a menu shell option:
Menu -> Edit -> Preferences -> General Tab -> “Run command as login shell” that as I understand it, if clicked, causes XFCE shells to bypass .bashrc in favor of .bash_profile. But my understanding is not to be trusted; I found this info at http://www.rebrik.info/blog/?p=74 -- Kent -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
