.bashrc not getting sourced during Gnome login

[Mirna Limic]

The only way I can set PATH and any other variable, or aliases I have to 
add lines to the end of /etc/bash.bashrc
This is the only way breezy recognizes them.

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, stan wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 10:19:36AM -0700, Constantine Evans wrote:
>> stan wrote:
>>> For some reason terminal sessions spawned from the Gnome window manager do
>>> not seem to inherit variables set in .bashec.
>>>
>>> How can I fix this?
>>>
>>> 6.10, if it matters
>>>
>>
>> Sorry about the uninformed suggestions here. Gnome terminal is not a
>> login shell by default (unless you change that setting), so it should
>> not be sourcing .bash_profile.
>>
>> It is sourcing ~/.bashrc on my system, so you should try to see if there
>> is something wrong with the file. If you replace it with a small file
>> like "export THIS_IS_WORKING=1", does that work? Does it work when you
>> start bash from in the terminal? Does the script show up when you start
>> bash --verbose?
>
> That was he problem. I changed the icon to satrt xterm instead, and now all
> is well.
>
> Thanks.
>
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