From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 12 07:04:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00469 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 07:04:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.cei.gov.cn ([203.207.119.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29994 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 07:02:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peihanw@mx.cei.gov.cn) Received: from wph.bbs.edu.cn (dialuser200.gb.com.cn [203.93.18.200]) by mx.cei.gov.cn (8.7.5+2.6Wbeta6/3.4W CEI-SIC 96110613) with SMTP id WAA09029 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:12:04 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 21:57:44 +0800 (CST) From: Peihan Wang X-Sender: root@wph.bbs.edu.cn Reply-To: Peihan Wang To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PS1 (command line prompt) in .profile Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello , gurus ! I am using bash (version: 2.01) on my 2.2.6 box. I put the following line in my .profile: PS1='`pwd`$ ' It works well in console mode, But after I start X it does not take any effect in xterm. By the way, I am using lesstif as my window manager. I do not know what to do :-( Thanks. Peihan Wang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message