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hullo everyone..

I've just installed gentoo on my laptop, installation went fine and my kde works great.... except for Konsole (the terminal emulator)!
Actually it works fine, but the prompt looks like

bash-{version}$

instead of

[{username}@{hostname} {directory}]$

In the normal (non-graphical) console this is the case, so that works fine. Also I get the thing rigth once i've run
source /etc/profile

Does anyone know how i can change these settings?
I'm getting a bit tired of source /etc/profile 'ing every Konsole session i start..

If any of you can help me that would be the best..

thanx.

Create a .bashrc file or edit the existing one in your users home directory.

Code:

# Celeron 850 tinwhistle .bashrc file for user fancy

# User specific aliases and functions



# Change bash prompt. See the article:

# http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork.../l-tip-prompt/

export PS1='\d \@ \[\e[32;1m\]\u\[\e[34;1m\]@\[\e[36;1m\]\H \[\e[34;1m\]\w\[\e[32;1m\]$ \[\e[0m\]'

# For the root account use this

# export PS1='\d \@ \[\e[31;1m\]\u\[\e[34;1m\]@\[\e[36;1m\]\H \[\e[34;1m\]\w\[\e[31;1m\] # \[\e[0m\]'



# Set paths

alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}'



# Allow local users to use my X session

# xhost +local:



# Dialup, start fetchmail daemon and startx

alias x='/sbin/ifup ppp0;fetchmail -d 300;startx'



# Alter the ls command

alias ls='ls -ac'

alias lls='ls -lac'



# Become system administrator

alias god='su -'



# Connect/disconnect the internet by modem

alias dial='/sbin/ifup ppp0'

alias hangup='/sbin/ifdown ppp0'



# Launch links with my linux links page

alias links='links /home/fancy/bookmarks.html'



# Power down/reboot

alias off='shutdown -h now'

alias boot='shutdown -r now'



# For nano editor because I forget which one I use in which distro

alias pico='nano -w'

alias nano='nano -w'



# for launching window manager/desktop environments from console login

alias a='echo DESKTOP=AfterStep > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias ice='echo DESKTOP=icewm > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias kde='echo DESKTOP=KDE3 > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias wm='echo DESKTOP=WindowMaker > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias sf='echo DESKTOP=Sawfish > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias g='echo DESKTOP=Gnome > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias xf='echo DESKTOP=XFce > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias bb='echo DESKTOP=BlackBox > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias fb='echo DESKTOP=FluxBox > ~/.desktop;startx'

alias e='echo DESKTOP=Enlightenment > ~/.desktop;startx'



# Slideshow of my photo album

alias pix='feh -r -z -F -Z -D /home/fancy/Pictures'



# Script needs to be on the bottom of the file or RH updates will fsck it up

# Source global definitions

if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then

              . /etc/bashrc

fi

From Bash reference manual
http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a:

Quote:

Invoked as an interactive login shell, or with '--login'

When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the `--login' option, it first reads and executes commands from the file `/etc/profile', if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for `~/.bash_profile', `~/.bash_login', and `~/.profile', in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable. The `--noprofile' option may be used when the shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

When a login shell exits, Bash reads and executes commands from the file `~/.bash_logout', if it exists.

Invoked as an interactive non-login shell

When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is started, Bash reads and executes commands from `~/.bashrc', if that file exists. This may be inhibited by using the `--norc' option. The `--rcfile file' option will force Bash to read and execute commands from file instead of `~/.bashrc'.

So, typically, your `~/.bash_profile' contains the line

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc; fi

after (or before) any login-specific initializations.

Maybe Konsole doesn't invoke bash as a login shell.
Terminal emulators like Konsole or gnome-terminal aren't good in my opinion,
XTerm (and clones) gives you better customization.
Personally, I love rxvt.

Hope this can help you,
sorry for my english.

Just put konsole --ls in your konsole shorcut command line

Sorry for not replying,

This was indeed the solution (putting konsole --ls in the shortcut), and it has since your reply be a standard procedure to me.
Thanx alot (all ofyou).

Quote:

Originally posted by BSlack
From Bash reference manual
http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash-2.05a:

wrong link..........

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html

besides a better one is this...........http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...mpt-HOWTO.html