Finalterm does not highlight files and directories

[mrDoctorWho]

Finalterm does not highlight files and directories after changing user by sudo. Sorry if this is a duplicate.

[p-e-w]

sudo spawns another instance of bash without Final Term being able to inject its logic into it. I see no way to fix this short of patching bash. You can, however, replace the user's .bashrc with Final Term's bash_startup as a workaround. That way, the hooks get executed whenever a bash shell is spawned from that user's account – unfortunately, also in other terminal emulators.

[nashley]

@p-e-w Perhaps only run the necessary changes in .bashrc if the current terminal is finalterm. This could be accomplished by interacting with the window manager -- could it not?

[p-e-w]

Final Term could set an environment variable (IS_FINALTERM), but indeed all .bashrc needs to do is examine bash's parent process (and if that is bash again, its grandparent process and so on). This could be written as, say, a Python script with ease and probably even in bashscript directly.