On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 01:00:22PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > It's the other way around, .bashrc is only read if bash is _not_ a login > shell. Which is why many people source ~/.bashrc from ~/.bash_profile > (or ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile) to get the same behavior, no matter if > the are running a login shell or not.
Correct. Makes me suspect that one or more of the OP's terminal emulators is using the "-ls" (or analogous) option to force the terminal to be a login shell, the way some universities do. The correct answer, as you said here, is to ensure that ~/.bash_profile (or whatever is in use) sources ~/.bashrc. This makes both login shells and non-login shells behave correctly. > That's something you definitely don't want to do, xterm-color is for > _very_ ancient terminals. Be prepared for misbehavior in curses > programs. If it's got colors at all, it's not _very_ ancient.
