On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Aaron Brownlee wrote: > maybe this is weird, maybe not. > > using RHLX 7.1 (Kernel v2.4.9-31) on an PIII(450) Gateway Solo 9300. > believe it or not, everything works great, including having both the touch > pad, PS2 keyboard and USB mouse, which took LOTS of messing > around. XFree86 needs more *laptop* display options, but I guess there's > always something to bitch about, right? Anyway, being the tinker munkee > that I am, I decided I wanted a different bash prompt. Hey, I'm picky. > > changed .bashrc by adding the following: export PS1="[\s \u@\h \w]\$" > > after this, using xstart (which starts GNOME) hangs as soon as the textured [snip] Hi, try this instead, append this line to the end of your $HOME/.bashrc PS1="[\s \u@\h \w]"$ Then to see if it's working do a [yourprompt]$ source .bashrc And the prompt should change for you. Note that this is NOT an XFree86 problem and any further questions should be directed to a shell-scripting list/forum. Try reading "man bash" (or even better "info man" for more information.) Cheers, -Oisin
