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

[Ross Thomas]

Todd Cary wrote:
> Another piece of information is the keystrokes are being processed by 
> the system in that the blink of the cursor stops if I press some keys 
> and after a second or so, resumes blinking.

When you are experiencing this, what does the following command show?

    ps -fHu<login>

where <login> is the username of the user having trouble.

Post the output to the list to let others see.

Ross.