[shrek]

I don't know, it's the same as it's in my bashrc what i posted.
The syntax confuses me big time.
But even after adding the things you mentioned i still have the same behaviour with broken input

It sounds like you may have non-standard configs that rely on specific terminal emulator features like robespierre said. You could try different terminal emulators like XTerm or Konsole. DeskView is modular so you can just plug in your favorite terminal emulator name in place of cmdshell in your ~/.toolboxrc. It won't match the Motif aesthetics, though.

If it's just the prompt customization you're struggling with there are online WYSIWYG editors. Search for "bash prompt generator"