Each time I open GNOME Terminal I have to hit CTRL+C to use it. It's pretty annoying.
It starts with a cursor only (I can type, but hitting ENTER just moves the cursor to a new line so it's useless) and a window tittle saying: Terminal
instead of what's in the prompt as it should. It's the same no matter how I start it (with CTRL+ALT+T, as a new tab or from another application) and as far as I can remember this behavior started for no discernible reason. And to my dismay it also survived an upgrade from zesty
to artful
.
I tried creating a new profile, but it didn't help.
I vaguely remember having the same issue a couple years ago and it just went away on its own. Somehow. I counted it's gonna be the same this time, but alas, no luck this time. It's been too long, the issue persists and it's driving me crazy. Help!
.profile
and the.bashrc
files in your home folder with the default ones found in the/etc/skel
folder. I would backup the ones in your home folder first though. And make sure you change the ownership of the files in your home folder to your usersudo chown $USER:$USER .profile .bashrc
– Terrance Jan 18 '18 at 21:31cowsay
line in.bashrc
was the culprit:cowsay -f $(ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows | shuf -n 1 | cut -d. -f1) $(whatis $(ls /bin) 2>/dev/null | shuf -n 1)
. If you care to make an answer out of this, I'll upvote it and accept it. – z33k Jan 19 '18 at 0:20