setting shell prompt in kde

[WaMan]

I can't seem to change my bash prompt from sh-2.05a$ to what I want. I set the PS1 variable in my .bashrc, but nothing happens. Everything works correctly in a tty session, just not in an xterm. An ideas.

Cheers

[pjp]

Are you using xdm/gdm/kdm?
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[pjp]

OK, had to find a link... if you are using kdm to login, check this thread.
Scroll down and look for '9.7. KDE (kdm) does not read my .bash_profile!'
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[WaMan]

I already checked out that thread - the suggested soltuion does not work.

[pjp]

Have you logged out?
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[rommel]

courtesy of endoalpha:

"As for the konsole question:
Edit the first line of /usr/kde/3/bin/startkde
from #!/bin/sh
to #!/bin/sh -login
...
/etc/profile will be sourced when kde starts then"

[WaMan]

In the end, the only thing hat seems to work is exporting ps1 in /etc/profile.env. Does this make sense??? /etc/profile doesn't seem to run if I'm not root, even after adding the -login bit to /usr/kde/3/bin/startkde.

strange. Thanks for your suggestions.

[Naan Yaar]

You can try changing this to:

[WaMan]

still no luck ... thanks, though

[thinker5555]

I had the same problem recently. What I did was open up my passwd file, find my user that I was having problems with, and I found that my shell was just listed as "bash" rather than "/bin/bash". So I changed it to /bin/bash, and now my .bashrc file is read when I open a konsole or xterm.


HTH,
Jeremy

[Ozymandias]

hi,

I use kde, kdm etc, don't have the problem, check
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=7429
for my .bashrc and /etc/profile, other than this my gentoo install is quite standard.
greetz Ozy

[WaMan]

That's the ticket. Add suffic your user id in /etc/passwd with /bin/bash

had to update my /etc/passwd file so that my user showed up as

user:x:#:#::/home/user:/bin/bash

This has the added benefit of adding your user name to the kde login manager, which I also couldn't figure out how to do.

[nyce]

I had the same problem with my bash prompt not showing properly but I only use konsole. So it won't work for you if you use xterm, rxvt or something else.

With konsole just open up preferences for the konsole icon, go to the execute tab and change the command line to read

konsole --ls %i %m

It doesn't work immediately, you have to quit konsole and start it again a couple of times and you'll get your bash prompt back ...
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[samureye]

I found I had to add a

source /etc/profile

in /usr/kde/3/bin/starkde even after making the change to the

#!/bin/bash --login and konsole --ls %i %m

Seems to work fine now though!

(it may be something to do with the bash-completion package that I emerged, as it won't properly function without a source /etc/profile. bash-completion is worth installing for people who don't know what it is
http://www.caliban.org/bash/index.shtml )

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[voidzero]

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Doesn't work :s
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