Re: Ksh and gnome

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:54:08PM -0500 or thereabouts, 
mcorbeil NetRevolution com wrote:
> > I use the korn shell and my .profile loads just fine at command line.
> > But when I open a terminal though i am in korn .profile does load. I 
> > can .~/.profile to get my profile, this is clunky.
> > Where are the initialisation file for gnome? can I use korn.
> 
> Your ~/.profile file should be loaded or sourced upon login.  This 
> is as opposed to .bashrc or .kshrc, which are sourced when you login 
> and every time you open a terminal window.  .profile is used for both 
> ksh and bash, by the way.

[copious useful explanation snipped]

Assuming this is gnome-terminal, there is also one other thing to
check: gnome-terminal supports the --login and --nologin arguments.
The --login argument means "run all the startup scripts" (ie, your
.profile as well as your .bashrc/.kshrc). The --nologin argument
means, urr, "don't do that" :) I can't remember which is the default,
but you can either use gnome-terminal --login or you can set it 
as the default via the Preferences dialogue box.

Telsa