[arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration

[Byron Clark]

On 07/08/10 at 10:47am, aerospace1028 at hotmail.com wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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?

bash only sources ~/.bash_profile when invoked as a login shell.

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Byron Clark