On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:20:53 -0600 bfd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I want my prompt, both in the text console and X-windows shell console, to show the path to the current directory, e.g.,
[/usr/local/mozilla/icons]$
Under RH 7.3, I could get this by adding to my .bashrc file the lines
PS1=[\\w]\\$ export PS1
When adding these lines into .bashrc under RH 9.0, after typing "startx", I get a black screen with a black X indicating the mouse cursor. I believe that X is loading but KDE never loads.
If I remove the above two lines from my .bashrc file, then KDE loads but my PS1 prompt is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \W]\$
which give me a display of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] bfd]$
If I open a shell console under KDE after it loads and then issue
PS1=[\\w]\\$
I get what I want.
But I can't get it to load initially and it seems to be preventing KDE from loading. This makes no sense to me, but it is happening. Ain't computers grand? <g>
So, two questions:
1. What is going on when I try to use PS1=[\\w]\\$ that X but not KDE loads
and
2. how can I get the prompt that I want into my .bashrc file so that it will always be there regardless of what I am running
BFD
Could not reproduce this problem here (admittedly not stock RH9). Perhaps you could post your entire .bashrc ?
Regards, Sean
I've used this .bashrc file for various versions of RH, Slackware and FreeBSD. It should be pretty explanatory.
# .bashrc
# User specific aliases and functions alias mv='mv -i' alias rm='rm -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias cls='clear' alias dirr='ls -al | more' alias hist='history' alias startx='startx -- -nolisten tcp' alias su='su -m' alias lsc='ls --color=none'
shopt -s histverify # directs history file to not include the listed commands # and not to include duplicate commands HISTIGNORE='cls:cd:dirr:hist:su' history_control=ignoredups
umask 077
#fix RH mangled sort order #LC_ALL=C #LANG=C #export LC_ALL #export LANG
BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc USERNAME="" TIMEOUT=3600 export USERNAME BASH_ENV TIMEOUT #PS1=[\\w]\\$ #export PS1
# these are not needed for RH, but for Slackware #TERM=xterm-color #export TERM #DISPLAY=:0 #export DISPLAY
# Need to modify this based on program locations # and if vi and emacs are custom installs #set -o vi #export EDITOR=/usr/local/vim set -o emacs # export EDITOR=/usr/local/emacs
# Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi
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