Re: [Fish-users] trigger script on launching a terminal window

2023-11-29 Thread libreville
thanks, david. i can get that to work, although it has a few side-effects that are maybe not ideal for me. i'll keep working at it. best regards, liv ___ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/list

Re: [Fish-users] trigger script on launching a terminal window

2023-11-29 Thread libreville
hi paul, > maybe XFCE invokes an interactive terminal to run that command? Because when > I do `fish -c…` the greeting is not printed, but it is when I open another > session with just `fish`. yeah, I get the same results from those actions. maybe something to ask the xfce community about. i t

Re: [Fish-users] trigger script on launching a terminal window

2023-11-29 Thread paul
Hey Liv, Is there a way to get fish to do something only when run inside a terminal window? sure, you could just check for `status --is-interactive` (see https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/status.html). Btw, this is also how fish_greeting is called internally, see /usr/share/fish/funct

Re: [Fish-users] trigger script on launching a terminal window

2023-11-29 Thread David Croll
Hi Liv, I solved that problem by opening bash terminals all the time. And what is in the .bashrc file? All the stuff I want to execute when opening a terminal window. In my case, .bashrc ends with: # to lighten up the day... fortune -a | cowsay -W 70; # to start the proper console :o) fish If

[Fish-users] trigger script on launching a terminal window

2023-11-29 Thread libreville
Hello everyone, according to my /usr/share/doc/fish/cmds/fish_greeting.html, "When an interactive fish starts, it executes fish_greeting and displays its output." >From this I concluded that fish_greeting might be a nice place to put things that I want to be executed when I open a new terminal wi