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2010-11-01
, 20:27
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http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=854076&postcount=7
Originally Posted by jedi
Is it the prompt that's the problem? If I remember correctly the default one is quite 'complex', especially on the N900 screen.
I edited /etc/profile.d/prompt and just added:
at the end of the file, completely over-riding the code above it.Code:export PS1='N900:\W \$ '
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2010-11-02
, 21:14
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as user "user" with shell now as /bin/bash I created a .profile file in the home directory.
In that I put ...
PS1="\w \$ "
export PS1
Please note the space between $ and " so the cursor is not flush with the prompt.
Bingo I have my old prompt back but I am using bash as my shell.
In that I put ...
PS1="\w \$ "
export PS1
Please note the space between $ and " so the cursor is not flush with the prompt.
Bingo I have my old prompt back but I am using bash as my shell.
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2010-11-03
, 01:03
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@ London UK
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I add this to my .bashrc:
Sets the prompt to contain the bluetooth name of the phone, if it has one, otherwise it sets it to be the hostname (which is not unique in maemo)
myphone:/etc $
Code:
export PS1="`awk '($1=="name") { sub(/^name /,"",$0) ; print; f=1} END{if (!f) exit 1}' /var/lib/bluetooth/[0-9A-Fa-f]*/config || echo "\\h"`:\w \\$ "
myphone:/etc $
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2010-11-03
, 05:51
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Originally Posted by cpitchford
that is scary. btw are you using bash? I wonder why my .bashrc command did not work.
I add this to my .bashrc:
Sets the prompt to contain the bluetooth name of the phone, if it has one, otherwise it sets it to be the hostname (which is not unique in maemo)Code:export PS1="`awk '($1=="name") { sub(/^name /,"",$0) ; print; f=1} END{if (!f) exit 1}' /var/lib/bluetooth/[0-9A-Fa-f]*/config || echo "\\h"`:\w \\$ "
myphone:/etc $
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2010-11-03
, 12:19
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It was late..so I missed this important step
Add this to the end of /home/user/.profile:
I'm not using bash, as much as I love it.. On all systems, I try to use the shell provided, saves me doing something that works on mine, but not other N900s..
Add this to the end of /home/user/.profile:
Code:
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi
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2010-11-03
, 14:16
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ah so any way you do need to create a .profile (there was none there on my phone)....
once in as user in bash I can type that and if changes to the old nicer busy box prompt but of course it gets lost. I tried putting it in .bashrc and exporting but that did not make any difference (unless I then manually typed source .bashrc). I also tried putting "source ~/.bashrc" in /etc/bash.bashrc, but that did not help either...
so in summary...using bash now for both user and root. happy with root prompt (kept the old prompt) but hate user prompt and want to get it back to my old prompt...without having to do another complete kernel and emmc reflash...
thanks...
Last edited by extendedping; 2010-11-01 at 20:28.