strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

Tue Jan 28 22:44:00 GMT 2003

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:
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From: Quan Ding qd421@yahoo.com
Date: 2003年1月28日 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: 2003年1月28日 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:
> \[033円]0;\w007円
> 022円[32m\]\u@\h \[033円[33m\w033円[0m\]
>> 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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