[mythtv-users] xterm prompt configuration

[Eric Sharkey]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jarod Wilson<jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> Possibly. Possibly an xterm thing too. Seems $something isn't sourcing in
> profile bits when a new shell is spawned. It behaves just like
> gnome-terminal here on my workstation, prompt looks the same. No clue what's
> up...

It may be that you're setting the prompt in your .bashrc when you
really need to be setting it in your .bash_profile.  I always need to
re-read the man page to remember which is which.

It's simplest to just symlink one to the other if you don't need to
distinguish these cases.

Eric