Terminal question.

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 17:51 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 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...

Well, that would be my thought as well, but then I can't understand why
Eterm and gnome-terminal show what I'd like, but Terminal and xterm just
show the "bash-2.05b$"
I took a look at .bashrc and everything seems to be in order. 
I'll keep looking I guess.

Thanks,
Jonathan