what is that god-awful new prompt in konsole? How do I restore sane
prompt?
What do you mean? I am fully updated and Konsole is the same for me as it always was. Maybe give us a screenshot or something?
The command prompt has nothing to do with Konsole, but is set by whatever your interactive shell is, and is defined in the shellās initialization file. If you are running a fairly new installation, then the default interactive shell is zsh. If you installed your system a longer time ago, then the default interactive shell will still be bash.
First issue the following command to determine what shell youāre runningā¦ 
echo $SHELL
Then look at the shellās initialization file. For bash, that will be ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile. For zsh, it is ~/.zshrc.
Now, Iām not very familiar with zsh, but in bash, the prompt is defined by the variable $PS1. For zsh, Manjaro uses a very special theme, and it is this theme that sets your prompt.
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thanks for all the help; right you are: something changed bash to
zsh in Breath.profile ā¦ an unpleasant and unrequested change
to start my Saturday
chsh -s /bin/bash
actually, that did not work; I had to manually change the Breath.profile file
I was just mucking about with this too. Itās weird that the default shell is set in the system theme. My /usr/share/konsole/Breath.profile contained:
[Appearance]
ColorScheme=Breath
[General]
Name=Breath
Command=/bin/zsh
I had to delete that Command=/bin/zsh line to get Konsole to use the default shell specified in /bin/passwd. I donāt think that is supposed to be there.
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Manjaro GNOME provides zsh by default for some time already. KDE edition was also using it for new users since August. Now I just restructured our configuration stuff and put zsh in separate profile configured system-wide. So if you are using default configuration you now having a new profile.
in what profile, what files exactly?
What do you mean with default configuration?
I use KDE, old install, shell is still bash but I have
[General]
Command=/bin/zsh
in /usr/share/konsole/Breath.profile as well.
I have Breath theme selected but the shell is not changed to zsh (which is fine) in konsole, why? Should the line better be deleted?
Profile is in /usr/share/konsole/Breath.profile
Config is in /etc/xdg/konsolerc
Config that is set in /etc/xdg/konsolerc. Previous Breath2.profile configuration was there, now itās replaced with Breath.profile, so if you didnāt overrode this in local configuration (by setting a different profile in Konsole settings) you were using the default global one.
I think you are using local config, check ~/.config/konsolerc
My konsolerc does not contain anything related to the shell, I think:
[Desktop Entry]
DefaultProfile=
[Favorite Profiles]
Favorites=
[MainWindow]
...
StatusBar=Disabled
ToolBarsMovable=Disabled
...
Maybe the emtpy DefaultProfile= setting makes the difference.
Yeah, this could be a reason. I think Konsole defaults to /etc/xdg config only if no corresponding setting found locally. In this case itās there just empty so it might just use itās internal one, which uses the login shell.
Hiā¦
Just wanted to report that the latest round of updates did the same thing to meā¦ somehow (I havenāt investigated) replaced BASH with ZSH. I lost my carefully-constructed prompt, and also lost all of my carefully-constructed aliases. The system seemed to be running smoothly, but was obviously not using ~/.bashrc.
I had a recent image back, so I just restored from that. Ran the updater again, this time answered NO to the questions about replacing the ābreathā package.
Iām happy to report that BASH is back, with all of my tweaks.
FWIW.
Thatās not lost. If you change the shell to be used explicitly to /bin/bash itāll be ābackā.
created an account just to like this post. what on earth convinced devs that deleting my current theme and replacing it with something uglier that also changed the theme of the konsole?
We didnāt delete anything. We just replaced default system settings that you were using. Your profile is still available and you can switch to it.
I must have been confused by the messages telling me āremoving plasma themeā ātheme not compatibleāā¦