-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:58:01PM +0000, der.hans wrote: > Am 23. Jan, 2017 schwätzte S. P. Molnar so: > > moin moin Stephen, > > > > >On 01/23/2017 01:38 PM, der.hans wrote: > >>grep PS1 ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile ~/.profile > > > >Thanks for the answers. > > > >I thought that i had the solution. Grep showed me that ps1 was > >only in .bashrc. After making a copy of .bashrc I removed the > >entire if ... fi section that contained PS1. > > > >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! > > Ah, xfce might have a(n annoying) default setting. KDE had a similar > problem for a while. If so searching your home dir for the change won't > help as the default was either in a system config file or baked into the > binaries.
There should be a session file somewhere in ~/.config (sorry I have no more details). Perhaps XFCE honors ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsessionrc or some of their siblings. Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAliGYwQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZisQCfZIPhoC6R9bsEGk6LUfmDQ3aE y/0AnjeKHrkLeAF2MN0Bwb7mQtv8xk4u =cLav -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
