Yes, I mean an xterm (konsole). I guess conventional was what I meant... that's why I had "right" way in "'s. I think windows is probably the same way, it's just all gui based so you don't really give you much of a choice of doing things another way. You can do all sort of weird shell (dos, whatever) things in windows too. -Josh > -----Original Message----- > From: Munir Nassar [mailto:nassarmu at redconcepts.net] > Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:25 AM > To: josh at teamfreeze.com; TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] source /etc/profile > > > Josh Close wrote: > > First off, I'm using gentoo with kde. > > > > When I open a command prompt I get the ugly no color bash > prompt. I can do > > "source /etc/profile" to change that. So, I added that to > my .bashrc file. > > when you say you open a command prompt do you mean you start > an xterm or > the like? > > try xterm -ls and see what happens. > > > I'm guessing this is the wrong way to do this. What would be the > > "right" way? Or more appropriate way? > > unlike windows, in unix there really isn't a right way of > doing things, > you do what works for you; though it is usually wise to > follow conventions. > > -- > Munir Nassar > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list