[arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 18:12 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> 2010/7/8 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
> 
> i could be wrong, as i've heavily customized these scripts, but i
> believe by default the only thing .bashrc does (in arch) is source
> .bash_aliases if it exists; so put aliases there.
> 
> take a look at:
> 
> /etc/profile*
> /etc/bash*
> ~/.profile
> ~/.bash*
> 
> they contain everything you need to know.  for example, you can create
> an /etc/bash.bashrc.local that will be sourced if it exists.  i use
> this to add gentoo style colors and prompts, export stuff, and
> increase the bash_history from 1,000 to 10,000 (i hate retyping stuff
> :-)
> 
> C Anthony

How big is .bash_history for you? =)