Fwd: RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

[Quan Ding <qd421 at yahoo dot com>]

I'm a newbie here. Someone suggested me to bring up my
problem here (it's already solved). So here I am.

--- "lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com"
<lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com> wrote:
> From: "lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com"
> <lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
> To: qd421@yahoo.com,  cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: strange characters in Xterm (in
> X-window)
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:26:15 -0500
> 
> Very interesting.  I don't use X windows under
> Cygwin so 
> I would not have noticed this fact myself.  This is
> something
> that makes sense to bring up on the cygwin-xfree
> list, assuming
> it hasn't been discussed there already.  That list
> deals with 
> issues that are X specific.
> 
> Larry
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Quan Ding qd421@yahoo.com
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:43:47 -0800 (PST)
> To: lhall@rfk.com, cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: strange characters in Xterm (in
> X-window)
> 
> 
> If I remove the PS1 variable setting in
> /etc/profile,
> the problem goes away. But my prompt becomes
> "bash-2.05b$" instead of the current directory I'm
> in.
> And I checked /etc/passwd file, I didn't see any
> /bin/sh, they are all /bin/bash. So I didn't change
> that file.
> And then I found out that the problem is in the
> startx
> script. If I change the first line from "#!bin/sh"
> to
> "#!bin/bash", and leave the PS1 setting as it was in
> /etc/profile, I got my informative prompt back in
> Cygwin window while the annoying code in X-window's
> terminals went away. Yeah~~~~~!
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> -Quan
> --- "lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com"
> <lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com> wrote:
> > You're running /bin/sh as your shell but have bash
> > specific escape sequences in your prompt.  Change
> > your
> > prompt (/etc/profile, ~/.profile, etc) or change
> > your
> > shell (/etc/passwd) to /bin/bash.
> > 
> > Larry
> > 
> > Original Message:
> > -----------------
> > From: Quan Ding qd421@yahoo.com
> > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:42:16 -0800 (PST)
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)
> > 
> > 
> > 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 \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> > 
> > These two lines will show up again after each
> > command
> > I execute in the xterm window.
> > 
> > They look like terminal control code, but how and
> > why
> > are they displayed in my window? And how do I get
> > rid
> > of them?
> > 
> > BTW, although I'm using the English verison of
> > WindowsXP, I set the region (in control panel) to
> > China to be able to view and input Chinese.
> > 
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