-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Smylers wrote: | Scott Francis writes: |> * default setting of remote window title - if I wanted my terminal |> windows to say bash, CWD, hostname, tty and process, I'd bloody |> well set it myself. | | The sytems I've seen doing this set it as part of the Bash prompt. | I'm not aware of Linux as a whole doing that -- many servers I've | SSHed to don't, of various distributions of Linux. | | The default Bash prompt appears to just give the version of Bash | being used, which is pretty hateful; do the Bash developers really | think that I'm always so eager to make use of a feature only in the | latest point release that the most important thing I need to know for | every single command is precisely which version of Bash this is? | | So many people either have their own preferred PS1 (in .bashrc) which | they deploy on all systems (in which case they are immune from any | OS defaults, such as setting the title) or take advantage of the OS | default being more useful than the Bash default. In the latter case, | they clearly can't please everybody; if they did the opposite, some | people could complain about it being missing -- remote Windows which | are unhelpfully labelled with whichever directory on the local | computer one happened to be in when SSHing.
As much as I disagree with turning software hate into hates-software-subscriber hate, I have to agree this isn't exactly one of my big complaints with Linux. It's not all that hard to edit a config file to set PS1 to whatever you want, including nothing. Same goes for default aliases, including rm -i. Of course, finding WHICH file can be a bit trickier. Does this distro copy a standard ~/.bashrc to your home and set it there? Or maybe it's ~/.bash_profile? Maybe it's set system-wide in /etc/profile? Or perhaps even that isn't good enough for them, and it's in /etc/profile.d/foo? Still, I wouldn't rate that nearly as high on my list as, say, the lack of good drivers for a lot of things. But that's for the hates-hardware-manufacturers list. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklbXXcACgkQyHR/4uWto7+Q9ACg6CnXm4JB0wAIxusNBGA5PHpF YqkAoNd2ZsfkyA0RLuWYEw7tXpToAudM =U+QK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
