Bash. Open gnome-terminal by login

[phopogologo]

Hi, I am new to linux(have been using it for half a year now) and thought about how I could make my gnome-terminal appear by startup. I am not sure how to do it so I will just ask you and hope I will get a not too complex answer.

[teju]

just a simple thing to do!!!
if you are working on bash then this works...
go to ur home folder.
there'll b a file by the name .bashrc
this is the file which the OS checks for and runs the commands in it at the startup.
so at the end of the file just append the following command:
gnome-terminal

you are done.
now reboot and check to see that gnome-terminal appears on the startup.

[phopogologo]

Heh, it is funny because I already knew that there was a file that would run by startup, I just thought it was .bash_profile so I added "gnome-terminal" at the end of it, but nothing happened. Now I just added it to .bashrc, but it still does not work when I reboot the system. I just added it at the very end of the file.

[bigtomrodney]

But if you open gnome-terminal through .bashrc - surely everytime gnome terminal opens it will start bash and spawn another gnome-terminal. Bit of a forkbomb there?!

The best way to do it is to open gnome-session-properties and add it into your startup programs. If you only ever run command line programs I would suggest just booting to init3 instead.

[phopogologo]

yeah..that is what it did.. I will try what you said.