[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#534633: Bug#534633: xfce4-terminal: If shell prompt >screen width, entry line becomes garbled

[Daniel Dickinson]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:59:58 +0200
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:

> On ven, 2009-07-17 at 11:57 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> > I use bash.  PS1 is:
> > 
> > case "$TERM" in
> > xterm-color)
> >     PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h
> > \[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
> > ' ;;
> > screen)
> >     PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h
> > \[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$
> > ' ;;
> > *)
> >     PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
> > 
> > I just tried with the xterm-color and screen options commented out
> > (so PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
> > and the problem doesn't happen in that case. 
> 
> And what TERM is usually used on your config? xterm-color?

screen normally.

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