On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 18:12 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > 2010/7/8 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 13:00 -0300, Hilton Medeiros wrote: > >> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:47:03 -0400 > >> <aerospace1028@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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:-) > >> > _________________________________________________________________ > >> > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your > >> > inbox. > >> > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 > >> > >> 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? =)
