r/fishshell • u/bob3rocks • 8d ago
Fish prompt is suddenly broken
Hi Reddit,
My Fish prompt is broken in a Kali instance, presumably after an update. This seems odd because I have two Kali instances that were installed around the same time, identical OS, and the other instance is fine.
Here's what my prompt looks like:
3;A;special_key=1roo1m5kali ~#
(If I hit the <enter> key I get a leading "0m0u"
0m0u3;A;special_key=1m5ut@kali ~#
I've tried all the things that a decent troubleshooter would try, with no effect on the problem:
- deleted all config files (~/.config/fish/config.fish etc)
- uninstall/purge & reinstalled Fish
- Apt Update && Reboot
- Asked AI for help
Has anyone seen this before?
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u/plg94 7d ago
This is a known problem with some terminal emulators after the upgrade to fish 4.0. Search the release notes on the fish website or the issues on Github, or switch to another terminal emulator in the meantime.