[arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 13:00 -0300, Hilton Medeiros wrote:
> 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

You could also set things in .profile instead? I've read before that
this is the 'proper' way to put env stuff etc.