[arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration

[Dave Reisner]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:47:03AM -0400, aerospace1028 at hotmail.com wrote:
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> greetings,
> I noticed the other day that some of the settings I configured in my ~/.bash_profile aren't implimented when using the gnome-termianl.  For the most-part, it's not too big a deal; some of it just aliases system admin stuff that I do from the text consoles (tty1-6) anyhow.
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> Just for curiousity, i poked around the wiki and the various settings areas on my computer (/etc, /usr/share and such) trying to find if the gnome-terminal had it's own set of configuration files.  Does anybody know where i should look to find howto customize the start-up behavior for gnome-terminal?  Also, is it normal for gnome-terminal to not read ~/.bash_profile, even if the default shell is bash?
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> thank you:-) 		 	   		  

gnome-terminal's settings are likely stored in gconf. .bash_profile is
read only on a login shell. gnome-terminal, by default, creates
non-login shells (I don't know how to alter this behavior).  You should
be setting aliases and things of that nature via .bashrc, which is
sourced every time an interactive shell is started. If these terms are
unfamiliar to you, I suggest reading 'man bash'.

d