text editor is not opening up: modified custom command

vanna · 03-10-2009, 10:11 PM

I was trying around various options in order to change the command prompt of terminal which displayed "bash-3.00$" to its original state which showed my login path.

Then I went to Edit>current profile>title & command> custom command and entered [vanna@linux ~] $
since whenever i try to open the text editor it crashes
how can i fix this??

abolishtheun · 03-10-2009, 10:40 PM

The window is only the terminal emulator-- what runs in it is the shell. You want to change the command prompt within the shell. at your shell, type something like

Code:

export PS1="\[\033[1;30m\][\[\033[1;34m\]\u\[\033[1;30m\]@\[\033[0;35m\]\h\[\033[1;30m\]] \[\033[0;37m\]\W \[\033[1;30m\]\$\[\033[0m\] "

(I got this from http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php#cmd_prompt)

I have absolutely no idea what the Title & Command option does in gnome-terminal but custom command runs some command instead of your shell, which is not what you want...

vanna · 03-10-2009, 10:57 PM

sorry for not quoting properly : i am not able to open my terminal
i am working on a redhat linux. so cant type in the command u quoted