Terminal question.

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Jonathan Gardner wrote:

>OK, I liked the look of that xfce-goody Terminal and am trying it out. I
>do like it, but I seem to be stuck with the string:  bash-2.05b$
>If I open eterm I get: gardnerj at rhiannon gardnerj $ 
>Then if I open Terminal from eterm, I get the same thing eterm gives
>me. 
>Terminal by itself doesn't seem to pay any attention to .bashrc. 
>How do I edit that to work for Terminal?
>I'm probably missing something really stupid, but I can't figure it out.
>Can anyone help me with this?
>  
>
this really has nothing to do with Terminal itself, and everything to do 
with your shell.  as a workaround, you can enable "run command as login 
shell" in Terminal's general preferences.  of course, this will make 
'users' and 'who' show a rather large number of logged-in users, so you 
may want to look at your shell's docs to see exactly what files get 
processed for a non-login shell.  there was a really nice flowchart that 
someone had done up about the process that explained it really well; 
unfortunately i seem to have lost that URL...

    -brian