Created attachment 9321 Screenshot displaying issue and how to reproduce it OS X's Time Machine backup makes a /Time Machine Backup/.HFS+ Private Directory Data^M folder. [In this instance it's on a removable/external USB hard-drive] When this folder is opened in the terminal emulator the prepended prompt "[<user>@<hostname> <folder>]$" gets messed up I guess the "^M" name ending is causes the issue [maybe not escaped properly?]. Prepended prompt should display [something like]: [champions@champions-pc .HFS+ Private Directory Data]$ Prepended prompt displays: ]$ ampions@champions-pc .HFS+ Private Directory Data with the cursor in the 4th character from the start position (rather than the end of the line) cd /run/media/<user>/Time\ Machine\ Backups/.HFS+\ Private\ Directory\ Data^M/ Running fresh install of Manjaro XFCE, with latests updates as of 21-Dec-2019 xfce4-terminal: v0.8.8
Hi Magnon, I think you're right, the problem is probably caused by the "^M" character which I think represents new line in DOS encoding. xfce4-terminal, however, does not draw the command prompt; it's the vte terminal widget that does all the drawing. Feel free to submit an issue against vte: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/
Logged upstream with vte as suggested. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/issues/213
Thank you! Let's see what they'll say.