.bashrc not getting sourced during Gnome login

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:34:43PM -0400, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On 10/14/06, stan <stanb at panix.com> 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?
> 
> AFAIK, GNOME uses ~/.gnomerc instead of ~/.bashrc. Probably, you can
> source ~/.bashrc from within ~/.gnomerc.

I do that.  It works fine, but is somewhat risky.  In Edgy, .gnomerc is
processed by dash instead of bash, so if you have any bash-specific
features (and if you include /etc/bash_completion, then you do),
you won't be able to log in into GNOME.

Marius Gedminas
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