[ubuntu-uk] Re: Running commands from bash in an xterm when logging-in (to X session)?

Magnus Therning wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british 

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:19:04PM +0100, David M wrote:
>>
>>I'd like, when I login, for one of these terminals to run some commands
>>automatically. I know these would go in some kind of login file (eg,
>>the more-obviously-entitled-than-some .login, in some cases), but I
>>don't know which.
>
> Just to clarify, you want *one* out of several bash instances to run the
> commands?
>
> AFAIK anything you put in ~/.bash* will be run for *every* instance you
> start, so you'll need some more magic. 

Aye, good point. :-(
Actually, considering what I want to do, it won't really matter if each
shell runs the commands as they're not state-changing.

> What types of commands do you want to run in the bash instance?

All that I really want is for the terminal to display the contents of a
"TODO" file when I login, to remind me of things I need to do!

It wouldn't matter if each startup terminal did this, although I suppose 
it would be better if subsequently-started terminals didn't do this (is
there a way for an X-terminal to tell whether it is started on startup
or manually?).


> I think the easiest thing is to replace one of the `gnome-terminal`
> calls you have in your existing script with
> `gnome-terminal -e 'bash -rcfile ~/.bash_specialrc'`. This will start a
> bash instance that uses ~/.bash_specialrc instead of /etc/bash.bashrc
> and ~/.bashrc.

Ah yes, that's an idea. 
Thing is, I don't know what starts up the terminals(!). They start
because I deliberately leave them open so that KDE saves them as part of
the session, and then restarts them automatically. I don't know where
KDE saves this information, though?


Thanks,


David.

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