[Bug 448337] Re: .bashrc is not executed when terminal is opened through nautilus-open-terminal

[Christian Neumair]

I am not a UNIX shell expert, but there seem to be two various ways of
invoking it: It may be interactive (bash -i), a login shell (bash -l) or
both of it (or maybe also none?). This influences the files that are
sourced upon login.

In my Ubuntu karmic distro, ~/.bashrc just sources ~/.bash_profile, so
the very same user-set aliases are used for interactive and login mode.
You may fix your issue by adding

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
    . ~/.bashrc
fi

to ~/.profile. Because I do not understand the concept of interactive
and login shells, I'll let somebody competent judge what mode is best
here. If I remember correctly, we pass the "-l" (login shell) parameter
to bash since we use it for ssh. Maybe it makes sense to also pass "-i",
or maybe use the login shell only for remote ssh locations, and the
interactive shell for local ones?

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.bashrc is not executed when terminal is opened through nautilus-open-terminal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448337
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