Xfce terminal shows "bash-3.11" instead of the path

jsmith6 · 01-13-2008, 11:19 AM

I can see a bash-3.11 instead of user@darkstar~$ that I see on pure console (Ctrl-Alt-F1). I also see bash-3.11 on xterm and I see a sh-3.11 rxvt.

I have the aliases from ~/.bashrc but not the ones from /etc/profile.d/coreutils-dircolors.sh. This means I can solve the problem by adjusting my .bashrc but this seems like a "hack". It's not a problem to do this for all the user accounts but I like solutions that work at once for everything.

Why doesn't Terminal has the same settings like standard console does? And how I can change its default behavior?

gnashley · 01-13-2008, 11:58 AM

Different strokes... Not all programs will use the same method or info for setting what you want. Short of a small patch for each program or choosing programs which display the way you want, I don't see a way around this.

marciobarbalho · 01-13-2008, 12:58 PM

edit "terminal" command by right-clicking on that icon, by the way, try out some like this:

user@darkstar~$ terminal -ls &

try "pwd" command, it shows the path

user@darkstar~$ pwd

that's it! You have to replace it, "terminal -ls" instead of "terminal"

tobyl · 01-13-2008, 01:20 PM

Or, Open a Terminal session. Go Edit > Preferences

You will see a sub heading "Command"

Check the box that says "Run Command as login shell"

Restart Terminal.

tobyl

rg3 · 01-13-2008, 01:24 PM

There is an entry on this here: http://slackwiki.org/Login_Shell

jsmith6 · 01-13-2008, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marciobarbalho

user@darkstar~$ terminal -ls &

that's it! You have to replace it, "terminal -ls" instead of "terminal"

xterm and rxvt both support the -ls switch which produces exactly what I wanted. The Xfce terminal doesn't. But I managed to get it with this:

Quote:

Originally Posted by tobyl

Or, Open a Terminal session. Go Edit > Preferences

You will see a sub heading "Command"

Check the box that says "Run Command as login shell"

Restart Terminal.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rg3

There is an entry on this here: http://slackwiki.org/Login_Shell

This website will come very handy

By the way, the author dislikes the .bashrc solution as much as I do :-P

Quote:

Originally Posted by marciobarbalho

try "pwd" command, it shows the path

This works but it's tiresome to type pwd all the time.

Thank you all for your quick replies.