Thanks for opening this issue. The reddit discussion pretty much has all the analysis... The issue seems to be that for your OS, the respective file that Bash-it installs in isn't loaded for SSH sessions.

Possible solutions:

• Source the respective file from your shell as described in the reddit thread, or
• Update the Bash-it installer for this specific OS flavor to install into the correct file.

A third alternative would be to work with the OpenIndiana folks to figure out why they handle the Bash configuration files in a different way than other Linux flavors...

work with the OpenIndiana folks

I emailed the discussion mailing list this morning.

Here's what the shell looks like in MATE:

And here's what it looks like over SSH:

Here's what happens when I su over SSH. Bash-it shows up as expected. But when I exit root, Bash-it is replaced by the vanilla Bash shell:

@nwinkler I think I'm making some progress: the above may be happening because SSH is a login shell while the MATE terminal is a non-login shell, and in Unix both types of shells read from different sources.

Since I've created an issue that gets to the root of this problem (see above), I'm closing this one.