I've got this weird thing with KDE:

I have Slackware 8.1 with KDE 3.x
The /etc/profile file is setup (as I understand) to give me a shell prompt of the format: user@host: path$ (e.g. root@themis:/local$ )
So far, if i'm logged into the normal console, it works fine, but inside KDE, when I start the Konsole, all it gives me is a plain promt "bash-2.05a$". This is annoying.
Could anyone gives me a pointer how to get my promt inside KDE?

Also, in the normal text console, when I do a "ls", file names are shown with different pretty colors, but not inside KDE. Why is that?

I've wasted nearly a day swating this to no avail, if anyone can help, it'd be very much appreciated.

-- Krappy --

As for the colors, I don't know if it's different using Konsole, but try:
ls -l --color

And as for your prompt:
source /etc/profile

will make that work for you

Cool

Thanks, it works, I just did sourse /etc/profile and both the prompt and colors come back.

Is there anyway to do this automatically? I've tried copying /etc/profile to ~/profile, .profile, .bash_profile ... the whole lot that I can think of, but still doesn't work.

Would anyone give me a brief explanation why /etc/profile doesnot work for the KDE konsole?

Thanks in advance,
-- Krappy --

What do you mean? I thought you said it does work now???

To make it source itself, I'd guess you'd put it in your startup scripts Maybe try putting it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Just add the entry:
source /etc/profile

See if that does the trick for ya. I don't always want the colors or the long location prompt, and am very happy that I don't have it there by default.

Good Luck, and if anybody wants to rip me apart and tell this poor guy how to do this the right way, feel free

Cool

I've found a way to do it. All I need is to change to button setting for Konsole to make it execute "konsole --ls" instead of just "konsole".
The --ls will tell it to open a login shell, which will automatically reads the profile. It works perfectly.
Thanks anyway Master :-)


-- Krappy --

No problem

I am glad you found what you are looking for, and an easy way to do it.

Cool