Re: Bash Prompt in an XTerm
>From: Travis Cole <tcole@iname.com>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Bash Prompt in an XTerm
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>This works fine when I am at the console as a normal user but as root I only
>get:
>
>atheist#
Check root's .bash_profile (and possibly .bashrc). It is probably
overriding the default prompt.
>In XFree86 it gives me:
>
>bash-2.00$
>
>I can live with the way root's prompt as I try to use root very little but I
>would like to change the prompt in my XTerms.
>
>What file would I edit to do this? I tried adding this to my .bash_profile
>and looked through the bash man page. I would also like to make these changes
>global.
How do you start your xterms? Through a window manager menu, I would
presume. You may have to add the '-ls' switch to the xterm command line to
make it a login shell (though I'm sure this affects the .bash_profile file,
I don't know about /etc/profile).
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