[arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration

[Hilton Medeiros]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:47:03 -0400
<aerospace1028 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> thank you:-) 		 	   		  
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Yeah, I had the same issue...
But it is easy to fix:

Open terminal -> 'Edit' menu -> Profile Preferences -> Title and Command
tab -> Tick "Run command as a login shell" check box 

Cheers,
Hilton