[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.4-1

[Ken Brown]

On 10/9/2009 9:56 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 08/10/2009 22:47, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 10/8/2009 5:25 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> But looking at PS1 to determine if you have a login shell in your
>>> ancestry doesn't work, as PS1 gets unset by non-interactive bash
>>> shells. (This is something which I have learnt today :-)
>>>
>>> So attempting to set PS1 in /etc/profile and inherit it everywhere
>>> isn't going to work.
>>
>> OK, thanks for the explanation.
>>
>> I still think you should consider using 'xterm -ls' in system.XWinrc,
>> because I think most users are going to want to see their usual prompt
>> when they start an xterm.
> 
> I agree that users should get their usual prompt in an Xterm.
> 
> This is not a problem limited to X, though: You can demonstrate it just 
> by doing 'bash -c bash'
> 
> I believe a solution would be to move the PS1 setting code from 
> /etc/profile to /etc/bash.bashrc, causing it to be set for all 
> interactive shells.

This doesn't quite work, at least with the default bash initialization 
files.  The problem is that /etc/bash.bashrc is invoked by 
~/.bash_profile, which is only run in login shells.  But setting PS1 in 
~/.bashrc seems to work.  Alternatively, one could move the code that 
invokes /etc/bash.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile to ~/.bashrc.

Ken

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