From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RhSJT-0005JH-RX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:47:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7667B21C02A; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 20:47:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223AA21C02A for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 20:46:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnq2 with SMTP id q2so921550ggn.40 for ; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:46:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pHl8AhFDFcXmYlmfu12JVnZ0WLHnw15+k56AG3cAzG0=; b=UkmATexgyic//HA/cOmCycg+hi9X4acnN3tDDLvfXa6jG9VE8NrlKGBE4WufrRzIUW c1svOzbcsZ7rUEqhCaUf1N1idycwuz5KrAqoHBxVTmxQpIWm2OspXMbZrPKNz1aAFN7Q OHaBXuJlulJJd3j2DogKvbQEJkH46qin6Io8Q= Received: by 10.101.158.17 with SMTP id k17mr7312008ano.67.1325450773583; Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-65-42.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.65.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h11sm19180486and.21.2012.01.01.12.46.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:46:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F00C613.4090300@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:46:11 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue References: <4F00B505.6050908@gmail.com> <4F00B95F.50707@gmail.com> <4F00BE1F.9010405@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F00BE1F.9010405@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c2b3aba8-982d-48ef-b709-bc0aad80d69d X-Archives-Hash: 1ad5f568b707917eaa563921606ab87a Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 01/01/12 14:58, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Colleen Beamer wrote: >>> On 01/01/12 14:41, Michael Mol wrote: >>>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Colleen Beamer >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I seem to have lost the command prompt in konsole and can't figure out >>>>> how to get it back. I did google this, but didn't see anything >>>>> relevant. Any ideas? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks and Happy New Year. >>>>> >>>>> Colleen >>>> echo $PS1 >>>> >>>> If it's empty, you'll want to fix it in $HOME/.bashrc. >>>> >>>> If you're not seeing *anything* when you type, I'd suggest checking >>>> your configured color scheme. >>>> >>> First, I exited out of kde by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1. Doing echo $PS1, I got >>> output. >>> >>> However, just to make sure you understand, in konsole, I get no command >>> prompt and can't type anything. >> First guess would be checking your terminal profile settings for color scheme. >> > I checked all the color schemes. However, I doubt that it is that. > Konsole was working - I was trying to get a previously created database > recognized in mysql and while I was going through the documentation, > konsole was working. Now, all I get is a black square where my command > prompt should be. > > Regards, > > Colleen > > It sounds like you have the text color and background color set to the same thing. Basically, it's invisible. I would go to Settings at the top then Configure Current Profile. You should be able to change things under the Appearance tab. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"