How to get profile to run when starting gnome terminal

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:22:34PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> Michael Pobega wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> >
> >>I know there is a way to do it, but I haven't found the right
> >>piece of doc yet I guess.
> >>
> >>How do I get /etc/profile and friends to be run when gnome
> >>starts up a terminal session?
> >>
> >>TIA!
> >>Dennis
> >>
> >>
> >
> >/etc/profile should automatically run. Try running GNOME-Terminal with
> >"-e bash" and see if that works.
> >
> >
> Michael,
>
>
> That wasn't it, but it put me on the track. Here's how in case
> you ever need to do it.
>
> 1. Open a terminal window.
> 2. Click "Edit"
> 3. Click "Current Profile"
> 4. Select "Title and Command" tab
> 5. Mark check box "Run command as login shell" under "Command".
> 6. Close the edit window
> 7. Close the terminal window
> 8. Open a terminal window again and your profiles will have been run!
>
> Thanks for getting me pointed in the right direct.
> I was thinking of an entry in a .rc or .ini file or some such.
>
> Thanks again!
> Dennis
>

That would explain it. As far as I know other terminal emulators (i.e.
xterm) execute profiles "out of the box". I never got it working under
GNOME-Terminal myself.

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