Terminal question.

[Bob Snyder]

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...
>
>    -brian


Brian,

Are these the flowcharts you are referring too?

    http://home.sprynet.com/~ckasso/ <http://home.sprynet.com/%7Eckasso/>

Looks like a handy resource. I hadn't seen these before and always found 
the man pages pretty confusing. Found this with google.

Bob S.