Hello, I have installed fluxbox on my computer, but the xterm that comes with it only displays "bash-2.05b#". Does anyone know the command to make fluxbox display the location it is currently in.

Look in /etc/bashrc and/or /etc/profile to see what the setting is... Maybe one of the lines should look something like (one single line), PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007"' taurus

Hi taurus, I looked into the /etc/profile using the cat command but there was no PROMT_COMMAND. Im kind of new to linux, so if you think I should add this command, could you please tell me the easiest way to do it.

Did you look in /etc/bashrc as well? You should see that line in /etc/bashrc and if not, add it at the end of that file by using a text editor, pico /etc/bashrc Save it and run this at the prompt, source /etc/bashrc taurus

I looked for the /etc/bashrc but it doesn't exist on my computer. Then I found a nice program (xedit) that let me easily add the lines of code to /etc/profile. I then ran source /etc/profile and it worked with errors on the new lines. It did however give me the hostname and location, so I went back and deleted the new lines. After running source /etc/profile again everything worked great and I got everything I needed. I guess that the code was written another way earlier, even though no place said PROMPT_COMMAND. Unfortunately, every time I close xterm it forgets the source /etc/profile and goes back to the other bash-2.05b#. Is there a way to make this automatic? Thanks again.

You need to create a .bashrc in your home directory, ~, that contains this line then, xedit ~/.bashrc source /etc/profile Log out completely and back in again. All the prompts should display the right setting now :) taurus

Thank you so much. The xterm now opens right to these settings. For others I used: vi .bashrc (return) (the letter i)source /etc/profile (esc) :wq (return) I have just a few more quick questions and I really appriciate all your help. The xterm now starts up with a dumb quote and the font color for some of the files is really hard to see. If possible could you point out what I can delete to remove the quote and change the colors. Here is /etc/profile : # /etc/profile: This file contains system-wide defaults used by # all Bourne (and related) shells. # Set the values for some environment variables: export MINICOM="-c on" export MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man export HOSTNAME="`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`" export LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" export LESS="-M" # If the user doesn't have a .inputrc, use the one in /etc. if [ ! -r "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc fi # Set the default system $PATH: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games" # For root users, ensure that /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin, and /sbin are in # the $PATH. Some means of connection don't add these by default (sshd comes # to mind). if [ "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then echo $PATH | grep /usr/local/sbin 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null if [ ! $? = 0 ]; then PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH fi fi # I had problems using 'eval tset' instead of 'TERM=', but you might want to # try it anyway. I think with the right /etc/termcap it would work great. # eval `tset -sQ "$TERM"` if [ "$TERM" = "" -o "$TERM" = "unknown" ]; then TERM=linux fi # Set ksh93 visual editing mode: if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then VISUAL=emacs # VISUAL=gmacs # VISUAL=vi fi # Set a default shell prompt: #PS1='`hostname`:`pwd`# ' if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/pdksh" ]; then PS1='! $ ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ksh" ]; then PS1='! ${PWD/#$HOME/~}$ ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then PS1='%n@%m:%~%# ' elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then PS1='$ ' else PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ ' fi PS2='> ' export PATH DISPLAY LESS TERM PS1 PS2 # Default umask. A umask of 022 prevents new files from being created group # and world writable. umask 022 # Set up the LS_COLORS and LS_OPTIONS environment variables for color ls: if [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/zsh" ]; then eval `dircolors -z` elif [ "$SHELL" = "/bin/ash" ]; then eval `dircolors -s` else eval `dircolors -b` fi # Notify user of incoming mail. This can be overridden in the user's # local startup file (~/.bash.login or whatever, depending on the shell) if [ -x /usr/bin/biff ]; then biff y fi # Append any additional sh scripts found in /etc/profile.d/: for file in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do if [ -x $file ]; then . $file fi done # For non-root users, add the current directory to the search path: if [ ! "`id -u`" = "0" ]; then PATH="$PATH:." fi