[mythtv-users] xterm prompt configuration

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/23/2009 07:06 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jarod Wilson 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. 

~/.bash_profile is only (normally) sourced for login shells (looks for 
~/.bash_profile, then ~/.bash_login, then ~/.profile in that order and 
uses the first it finds).  For interactive non-login shells, it
sources ~/.bashrc.  (Though this behavior may be changed by some distros 
or whatever.)

So, either put the PS1 definition in ~/.bashrc or change the 
Alt-<whatever> binding in ~/.fluxbox/keys to do an xterm -ls (for login 
shell).

Mike