Hi Stephen, Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 19:06 schrieb Stephen Liu:
> On KDE Konsole window > > As ROOT, it prompts > mymachine root # > > not as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# > > > As USER > bash-2.05b$ the bash version, not as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] satimis]$ > > Kindly advise how to change them back Yes, yes, this IS a problem on gentoo. Let's examine the startup files, assuming you are using kdm and kde3.1. The first question is: what does kdm start after logging in? ---code $ grep "^Session=" /usr/kde/3.1/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Session=/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession --- This is the file that is invoked as user by kdm after login. Let's check the first line: ---code $ head -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession #!/bin/bash --login --- You see, "bash" is invoked as login shell. The first sourced file is "/etc/profile". After reading that file, it looks for "~/.bash_profile", "~/.bash_login", and "~/.profile", in that order, and reads and executes commands only from the first one that exists and is readable (-> man bash). When you have chosen to start kde3.1, the next file which gets invoked is /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde (have a look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession). ---code $ head -1 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde #!/bin/sh --login $ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2003-09-30 10:16 /bin/sh -> bash --- Now "bash" is invoked as "sh" and as login shell, too. So the sourced files are "/etc/profile" and "~/.profile" only, in that order (-> man bash). The last thing you do is starting "konsole" as terminal with your login shell, assuming to be "bash", but it is not invoked as login shell, so it sources only the file "~/.bashrc". On a fresh installed gentoo, you have "~/.bash_profile" and "~/.bashrc" in the users' home directories ($ ls -a /etc/skel). So the files are sourced in this order: /etc/profile (by Xsession), ~/.bash_profile (by Xsession), /etc/profile (by startkde), ~/.bashrc (by konsole) You are interested in PS1 for setting your command prompt. This is set in /etc/profile, but it checks for a !dumb terminal, but bash has always been invoked as dumb terminal. So all you have to do is to change both lines ---listing /etc/profile if [ "$TERM" != 'dumb' ] && [ -n "$BASH" ] --- to ---listing /etc/profile if [ -n "$BASH" ] --- Maybe you should also remove "--login" from the shebang line in /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde, because whenever kde starts, the invoking user is already logged in. In X this should be done by Xsession. The login profiles are to be sourced only one time. I hope this makes the kde startup a little bit clearer. Kai -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
