Weekly edition	Kernel	Security	Distributions	Contact Us	Search
Archives	Calendar	Subscribe	Write for LWN	LWN.net FAQ	Sponsors

A look at Xfce 4.2

Posted Dec 6, 2004 12:53 UTC (Mon) by petebull (guest, #7857)
In reply to: A look at Xfce 4.2 by sfink
Parent article: A look at Xfce 4.2

> I haven't been able to track down an exact example of how to
> make it flake out.

PBKAC:
info '(bash)Printing a Prompt'

Last 2 entries in the Escape characters table:
\[ - Begin a sequence of non-printing characters
\] - End a sequence of non-printing characters.

You want these around the fancy part of your prompt.

(Log in to post comments)

A look at Xfce 4.2

Posted Dec 7, 2004 17:46 UTC (Tue) by arafel (subscriber, #18557) [Link]

As the original submitter says, you can get it with just "user@host:path$ ". It seems to happen for me when the prompt is at the very bottom of the xterm, and you type a line that wraps. konsole 1.2 from RH9 KDE 3.1 then breaks; the one in current Debian unstable doesn't. Haven't tried xterm for a while, but I seem to remember that also had problems.