[mythtv-users] xterm prompt configuration

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Thu Jul 23 23:06:31 UTC 2009


On Jul 23, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> 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.

Default .bash_profile in my distro of choice is what sources .bashrc  
if ir exists.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
  


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