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02-24-2004, 05:48 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 56
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KDE 3.2 Konsole Terminal
I have just installed KDE 3.2 on Slackware 9.1 and the terminal window is just showing me "bash-2.05b" rather than showing me the computer name and current working directory. It is not even showing me different colors for directories and executable files.
I don't thing there is something wrong with my profile as the terminal window was fine in KDE 3.1 and I don't start directly into XWindows and the Linux prompt I initially see has got the working directory and correct colors for different files and directories.
Can someone please help
Thanks.
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02-24-2004, 07:03 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: UK .
Distribution: *buntu (usually Kubuntu)
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The bash-2.05b thing seems to be the default.
It installed exactly the same for me in gentoo - you can probably change it, but I haven't worked out which files yet.
And yes, my profiles ok as well. If you kill you gui, and check out your level 3 input (ctrl+alt+backspace or delete) you should still see all your computer name/account/directory etc ok.
regards
John
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02-24-2004, 08:05 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Distribution: Gentoo, Windows 95 2000 & XP
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Check out this site, it has a nice article on how to play with your bash prompt.
Prompt Magic
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02-24-2004, 09:35 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 1,796
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right click the icon, change the application command to "konsole -ls"
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02-24-2004, 10:50 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: 63123
Distribution: OpenSuSE/Ubuntu
Posts: 419
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For a prompt like:
Code:
username@hostname:~>
create or modify the .bashrc file in your home directory and add this line.
PS1="${_t}${_u}:\w${_p} "
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02-26-2004, 05:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 56
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Both the options worked, typing console -ls and creating .bashrc and .bash_profile files.
Thanks for the help
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