Looking at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/bash/, it seems that up to bash_3.2-0 (which was shipped by Hardy 08.04 LTS) bash's /etc/skel/.bashrc defined PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
Beginning with bash_3.2-4 (Intrepid 08.10) PROMPT_COMMAND is no longer present in files shipped by bash under /etc/skel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132700 Title: gnome-terminal >= 3.7 requires sourcing of vte.sh login script Status in GNOME Terminal: New Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: As of gnome-terminal 3.7.0, it is required to add the following to PS1 to get the usual behaviour where a new terminal opens with the current working directory of the terminal you activated it from. export PS1='\[$(__vte_ps1)\]'$PS1 gnome-terminal devs suggest to put this in .bashrc, however since this basically causes a regression, it would make sense to deal with it at a distro level and perhaps include it in the system bash scripts or similar. The actual change was made in libvte so this may potentially affect any application that uses that library. As a side note: __vte_ps1() is provided by /etc/profile.d/vte.sh, which is installed by libvte, however atleast on my system this script is not getting sourced at login for some reason. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/+bug/1132700/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
