On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:43:12PM -0500, S. P. Molnar wrote: > I added PS1="\u@\h >" to the end of .bashrc and sourced the file - it > worked, in that terminal. However, if I open a new terminal (I'm using > xfce4-terminal) the prompt is back to the corrupted one!
Normally when you open a terminal, it *should* run a non-login shell. If your account's shell is bash, then the non-login shell will read ~/.bashrc. However, some people configure their window managers to run a login shell when they open a terminal. In that case, if your account's shell is bash, the login shell will read ~/.bash_profile which in turn *should* be configured to read ~/.bashrc. So, make sure ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile sources or dots in ~/.bashrc. Debian's default ~/.profile does so, but if you created a ~/.bash_profile, that overrides ~/.profile, so you'd have to check your own work. > Rebooting the computer doesn't solve the problem. Not a surprise. > I have initiated a search of the entire file system for PS1= , although > I suspecct it take a while. You said the new prompt has p4 in it, which makes me suspect that you have installed something (like, say, p4) which modified your ~/.bashrc to change the prompt. Or it might have modified /etc/bash.bashrc which Debian's bash also uses. It's worth looking at it.
