Terminal bug: missing prompt

[Robby Workman]

Jean-Marie Pacquet wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to this list as I'm moving my Slackware based desktop PCs from 
> WindowMaker to XFCE which seems to be one way to go... Upgrading them to 
> Slack 12.0, I was not able to use Terminal since there is no system 
> prompt: you can't enter anything. My favorite terminal "aterm" is not 
> affected by this bug and the standard "xterm" is not either. After some 
> googling, I found this:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/xfce-terminal-not-working-586728/
> 
> It seems that Terminal requires your own prefered shell to be listed in 
> the /etc/passwd. Adding "/bin/bash" at the end of my entry in 
> /etc/passwd effectively fixed the problem.


Of course it does - that's standard format for /etc/passwd.

When you add/edit a user account with kuser (the kde tool for user
management), make sure you don't leave the shell selection box
empty.

-RW