Re: letters of the path have returned in numbers? Any idea why?

[Aldi Kraja <aldi at wubios dot wustl dot edu>]

Great! I tested your suggestion with
startx -e bash
and it corrected the paths as the previous defaults.
I am not going to use rxvt and I have uninstalled it, unless someone 
will tell
any extra use of it compared with X-term.
Thanks,
Aldi

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Aldi Kraja wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi,
> > Before I was working only with Xfree86 and it was responding fine at
> > least on the windows open. Now that I added some more packages such as
> > rxvt etc., my paths in the directories when I startx are becoming
> > nonsense: here is an example : \033[32m\]\u@ and more numbers. Does
> > anybody has a suggestion how to revert this process in original letters
> > of the path?
> > TIA, Aldi
> >    
>
> rxvt by default starts with /bin/sh as the shell, which doesn't understand
> color sequences in the prompt.  Try "rxvt -e bash".
> 	Igor
> P.S.  This was non-XFree86-specific.  If you have further questions about
> XFree86, please use the cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com list.
>  




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