> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 08:51:22 -0500 > From: "Lowell Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: terminal disappears > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, > > I'm an experienced C/C++ developer with a little UNIX experience years ago, > but a complete newbie to Linux and GNOME. I just installed Debian 4.0r1 with > gnome 2.14.3 and I'm having trouble with the terminal. Problem one, is that > it does not seem to run the .bash_profile script at start up. Problem two, > is that I shot myself in the foot experimenting with fixing it. I modified > some parameters in the terminal profile (I don't remember which, but I > modified some check boxes) and now it just flashes on and immediately exits > before I can undo my changes. I can get a root terminal, but not my user > terminal. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lowell Thomas
I think that problem 1 is a shell problem. When gnome-terminal begins, it starts an interactive shell. An interactive shell reads ~/.bashrc as its profile. Adding a line in ~/.bashrc: source ~/.bash_profile should execute the commands in .bash_profile. See the man page for bash and seek INVOCATION for an explanation. For problem 2, see if you can find a configuration file for gnome-terminal in the ~/.gnome directory tree. If there is one, either fix it or rename it something else. It should be recreated when you start gnome-terminal. If it doesn't fix the problem, you can rename it back to its original name. good luck _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
