application startup on terminal/shell

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:57:55 +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 17:41 +0100, Zahid Rahman wrote:
>> I want the neofetch app   to run every time I start a new terminal.  
>
>There are several files whose specific purpose to is initialise things
>when you start new shells in various ways.
>
>Check out:
>
>   /etc/bash.bashrc
>   /etc/profile
>   ~/.bashrc
>   ~/.profile
>   ~/.bash_profile 
>   ~/.bash_login
>
>Read the "INVOCATION" section of "man bash" for information on when
>these files are executed. Since some of them call others of them, It
>all gets a bit convoluted :-)
>
>The short answer you probably want is to append a call to neofetch to
>your ~/.bashrc file:
>
>   echo >> ~/.bashrc
>   echo neofetch >> ~/.bashrc
>
>Regards, K.
>

I guess little girl and Karl are right. Actually divert would work,
too, but it's not appropriate. OTOH I do not really know how neofetch
works.

It seems that neofetch opens it's own window and doesn't provide it's
infos on top of an opened terminal.