Home directory isn’t displayed as ~ on Fedora Silverblue

[fbruetting]

In Fedora Silverblue everything in / is read-only, except for /var/ and /etc/ – thus /home/ is symlinked to /var/home/ for being writable. Powerline with default settings shows me this prompt at opening a terminal:

When I execute cd ~, I then see the correct tilde symbol instead of that path:

Can you maybe detect that, so that opening full paths in /var/home/$(USER)/… would always show the tilde symbol instead of that longer path?

[jwflory]

@fbruetting I am curious, does Fedora Silverblue correctly note the user's home directory path in /etc/passwd on Linux?

[fbruetting]

Oh no, it doesn’t – I just reported that upstream, but changing that doesn’t work currently.

[jwflory]

@fbruetting I say this with no understanding of the underlying code for the project here and obviously I am not a maintainer. But I would guess it is easier for @justjanne to fix this if Fedora Silverblue uses a common standard like updating the home directory path in /etc/passwd. Then, I would guess powerline-go could detect a user's home directory based on the passwd file and use that for whatever user is currently logged in.

[fbruetting]

Okay, this got fixed. @justjanne, would this then be fixed?

[justjanne]

@fbruetting I don’t have an install of Red Hat Atomic (or distros based on it) here to test. I’d love to hear if it works for you.

[fbruetting]

Seems to be resolved (/var/home/<user> is still not displayed as ~, but I don’t have to enter cd manually anymore aftar starting the terminal, so bash now seems to start in symlinked /home/<user>).