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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, then we need to figure out the scope of how many people will likely
set $PROMPT_COMMAND in their ~/.bashrc (i. e. which older releases had
that in their /etc/skel/, or perhaps it was just added there manually).
If that's reasonably small or has never been in /etc/skel/, we can
revisit what's wrong with sourcing /etc/profile.d/ or fiddle with that
accordingly.

> patching bash/zsh to automatically emit OSC 7

That would be a question for Matthias Klose (our bash maintainer), but
what does that mean? Googling for "OSC 7" isn't very useful, I'm afraid
:)

Thanks, Martin

** Summary changed:

- gnome-terminal >= 3.7 requires sourcing of vte.sh login script -- go back to reading /proc/pid/cwd
+ gnome-terminal >= 3.7 requires sourcing of vte.sh login script

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Title:
  gnome-terminal >= 3.7 requires sourcing of vte.sh login script

Status in GNOME Terminal:
  New
Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  As of gnome-terminal 3.7.0, it is required to add the following to
  PS1 to get the usual behaviour where a new terminal opens with the
  current working directory of the terminal you activated it from.

  export PS1='\[$(__vte_ps1)\]'$PS1

  gnome-terminal devs suggest to put this in .bashrc, however since this
  basically causes a regression, it would make sense to deal with it at
  a distro level and perhaps include it in the system bash scripts or
  similar.

  The actual change was made in libvte so this may potentially affect
  any application that uses that library.

  As a side note: __vte_ps1() is provided by /etc/profile.d/vte.sh,
  which is installed by libvte, however atleast on my system this script
  is not getting sourced at login for some reason.

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