Login Shell

[Fozzmeister]

in Gnome-Terminal I set it as a "Login Shell" which makes my Keychain work, It'd be nice to have this option in Terminator

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Strange, we are supposed to follow the GNOME Terminal profile for this.
Can you provide a testcase?

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I suspect this might be that we're not calling bash with a - so it doesn't know it's a login shell. Either way, this should be confirmed&fixed, or rejected by 0.9.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

I did some research on this and I'm not exactly sure why it's happening - the vte widget's fork_command() function should be setting login shells for us when we pass it the appropriate setting, but it's not doing it. Further investigation is required.

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

in 0.8 on hardy when I set the login shell feature in gnome-terminal it works as expected...

I'll have to test 0.9bzr still..

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

Thanks to some IRC info from \sh this is now fixed in trunk. We update the system records like we should, but we don't tell bash that it is a login shell. Fixed by commit 343..

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

0.9 has now been released and should fix this.

[machrider (machrider)]

Did this regress? On Ubuntu Lucid, running terminator 0.93-0ubuntu1, I have gnome-terminal configured to provide a login shell, but terminator doesn't do it. terminator -e "bash -l" works as I'd expect.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

machrider: right click on a terminal and check the preferences, then in the Profiles tab go into the Command sub-tab, you can control whether or not a given profile runs its shells as login shells.

[olistik (olistik)]

I'm experiencing the same issue:

in gnome-terminal -> edit -> profile preferences -> title and command -> "run command as login shell" is checked
As an example, when using rvm [0] the following error happens in terminator but not in gnome-terminal:

$ rvm use 1.9.3

RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work.

You need to change your terminal emulator preferences to allow login shell.
Sometimes it is required to use `/bin/bash --login` as the command.
Please visit https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/ for a example.

[0] http://rvm.io