Re: terminal prompts
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> I have run into a problem in Mepis but have been unable to get an answer
> yet from that community group. The distro is based on Debian Squeeze so I
> thought someone here night have the answer. Normally I run Debian
> Sid...Mepis is just an experiment
>
> The distro runs fine but slow under KDE, but after I Installed Icewm, I
> notice when I load an exterm, the prompt I get is "%" not the usual one
> setup in .bashrc.
>
> I have to actually run bash to get the normal prompt. It also affects the
> time it takes Midnight Commander to load, UNLESS I add the "-u" parm to the
> command line so it doesn't have shell facilities.
>
> Can someone explain what's going on ?
What;s your shell? tcsh?
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