[NBLUG/talk] What controls the "prompt"?

[Todd Cary]

Eric -

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Do you mean that when you're not root and run the terminal, it comes up 
without any prompt
 >>>
Correct!  No prompt...just a white screen/window.

This is RH 9.0.

I did not notice this in the beginning since I set the default to KDE 
where everything runs fine...in fact, coming from Windows, I am very 
impressed.  Then one day I decided to "take a look at Gnome".  When I 
tried to bring up the Terminal window, there was no prompt (I thought it 
was a keyboard problem).  By going back to KDE and using the 
"gnome-terminal" command from it's terminal window I was able to gleen 
the information I have presented.

Todd

Eric Eisenhart wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:54:08AM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
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>
>>If I bring up the Gnome Terminal ("gnome-terminal") and I am root, all 
>>is well: I get the root prompt.  However, if I am not root, the terminal 
>>window comes up without the prompt.
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>
>Do you mean that when you're not root and run the terminal, it comes up
>without any prompt, or that it comes up with something different than the
>root prompt?  Does a terminal window appear at all?
>
>What Linux distribution are you using?
>  
>

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