[openbox] openbox focus wish list

Michael Leuchtenburg michael at slashhome.org
Wed Oct 8 21:10:58 EDT 2003


Spake Mike:
> I can see a special case for screen, but is there a reason why you don't 
> just use $PS1 instead of going through all of the above?
> 
> PS1="\[\033];\u@\h:\w\[\007\]\$ "

This causes bash to be confused about how long the prompt is, which can
cause issues when it wants to redraw. With PROMPT_COMMAND, this problem
doesn't exist.

-- michael



More information about the openbox mailing list