Konsole not showing prompt on Plasma Wayland

[ITA84]

I hadn't tried Plasma Wayland in a while, so this is probably not a recent issue, but when I start Konsole in a Wayland session I get no prompt, because the PS1 environment variable is not set, whereas on an X11 session is shows just fine; note that input works normally, and if I enter

export PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

in the Wayland session the prompt appears. Also, if I enter 'su -' the root prompt appears as well (not with just 'su').

I assume this is due to the difference in how X11 and Wayland sessions load their environment variables, but I couldn't really find which configuration file is used for X11 and not for Wayland. First of all, I would like to know if anybody else has the same issue (in which case I'll just use a workaround until it's fixed); if not, I'd like to ask for help in figuring out what's wrong with my setup.

Thanks in advance

[xerxes2]

In Gnome it works to put the prompt in the .bashrc file in your home directory.

[ITA84]

Do you mean that in a Gnome Wayland session, if you don't explicitly put the prompt setup in ~/.bashrc, it won't show in the terminal either? In that case then I'd assume it's this way for everyone. In any case, thanks for your answer

[doktor5000]

Asking the other way around, where do you define your PS1 ? Or are you asking about the default one?
In any case, it might help if you could post what PS1 actually contains in your wayland session. Or is it really unset ?

[xerxes2]

Do you mean that in a Gnome Wayland session, if you don't explicitly put the prompt setup in ~/.bashrc, it won't show in the terminal either? In that case then I'd assume it's this way for everyone. In any case, thanks for your answer

Yes.

[ITA84]

Asking the other way around, where do you define your PS1 ? Or are you asking about the default one?

I haven't defined any custom PS1. Yes, I'm talking about the default one that I see in an X session (which should be "[\u@\h \W]\\$ ", if I understand correctly; I found it in /etc/bashrc)

In any case, it might help if you could post what PS1 actually contains in your wayland session. Or is it really unset ?

I've double-checked and it's actually set to the empty string: if I do

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echo $PS1

I get nothing, while if I do

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echo ${PS1+x}

'x' gets printed, which shouldn't happen if PS1 is unset.

If it's any help, this is what's in my /etc/bashrc; I've never edited it, but apparently it was last modified on 17th June.

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# /etc/bashrc

# System wide functions and aliases
# Environment stuff goes in /etc/profile

# It's NOT good idea to change this file unless you know what you
# are doing. Much better way is to create custom.sh shell script in
# /etc/profile.d/ to make custom changes to environment. This will
# prevent need for merging in future updates.

# By default, we want this to get set.
# Even for non-interactive, non-login shells.
if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then
        umask 002
else
        umask 022
fi

# are we an interactive shell?
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    i='${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:$([[ "${PWD}" =~ ^"${HOME}"(/|$) ]] && echo "~${PWD#${HOME}}" || echo "${PWD}")'
    case $TERM in
        xterm*)
            PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;'${i}'\007"'
            ;;
        screen)
            PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033_'${i}'\033\\"'
            ;;
        *)
            ;;
    esac
    unset i

    [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "

    # You might want to have e.g. tty in prompt (e.g. more virtual machines)
    # and console windows
    # If you want to do so, just add e.g.
    # if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    #   PS1="[\u@\h:\l \W]\\$ "
    # fi
    # to your custom modification shell script in /etc/profile.d/ directory
   
    if [ -z "$loginsh" ]; then # We're not a login shell
        # Not all scripts in profile.d are compatible with other shells
        # TODO: make the scripts compatible or check the running shell by
        # themselves.
        if [ -n "${BASH_VERSION}${KSH_VERSION}${ZSH_VERSION}" ]; then
            for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
                if [ -r $i ]; then
                    . $i
                fi
            done
            unset i
        fi
    fi
fi

unset loginsh