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Re: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)
- From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin at exposure dot org dot uk>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Quan Ding" <qd421 at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:23:44 -0000
- Subject: Re: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)
- References: <20030128174216.69221.qmail@web40507.mail.yahoo.com>
> After I started x-windows. There are strange extra
> characters on the top of every window (login, xterm)
> which look like the following:
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \022[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
It would appear that you are running sh (/bin/sh) with bash escapes in your
PS1 environment variable (your prompt). If you change your shell in
/etc/passwd to bash (/bin/bash) this will go away.
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
elfyn@exposure.org.uk
www.exposure.org.uk
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