[YLUG] gnome-terminal/fedora 10

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:22:30PM +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>
>> When I run gnome-terminal, it does run .bash_profile, but it looks like
>> that it should not.
>> xtern and terminal have the right behavior.
>
> Why would it not be considered "right"?  This depends entirely on
> what you want it to do.
>
>> How can avoid to run .bash_profile when I run gnome-terminal ?
>
> gnome-terminal does not "run" .bash_profile.  It runs /bin/bash
> just time xterm does, but as a "login" shell which causes it to
> read .bash_profile instead.  This is a configuration option in
> gnome-terminal, and it's not done by default, so you most likely
> configured it to do this; just uncheck the box in the edit profile
> dialogue.
>
> The BASH manual and info pages explain exactly how login shells
> work.
>
Very good.

Thank.

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