Aliases in gnome

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:52 AM -0500 6/1/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
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>> What I would like to understand is, what issues there are with being a
>> "login shell", since it isn't the default?  I've been find so far with my
>> gnome-terminals not being login shells; I see that the virtual consoles are
>> login shells, and it seems to be OK to be logged in more than once.
>>
>For a fairly complete explanation, run "man bash" and look for the
>"INVOCATION" section. You should not run into any problems by using
>a login shell. There is slightly more overhead for the system when
>launching a login shell, but not enough to matter. It is possible to
>have things set up in ~/.bash_profile that cause problems when run
>in an gnome-term, but the default setup will not be a problem.
>(There some interesting things you can set up for use with a serial
>terminal, among other things...) I believe that the login option is
>not the default in order to conform with the default xterm usage.
>That way, it does not break custom configurations people have added.
>The option to change it is there for people like you that want the
>terminal in X to act the same as the CLI login.

OK, thanks.
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