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[Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed it could be crucial to know if PROMPT_COMMAND was ever present in
/etc/skel.  I think it's fair game if users who have once touched their
configs will need to touch that again.

And it's not that they'll live with something fundamentally broken until
then - it's one convenience feature that won't work, and they'll be able
to quickly look up the answer on the net.

Okay I didn't *really* mean to patch bash/zsh, but it's something to
think about for a while, for fun.  OSC stands for operating system
command, this is the escape sequence \e].  OSC 0 is used to change the
terminal's title, OSC 7 is used to change its notion about the current
working directory, as you can see in vte.sh.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132700

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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