Gnome Terminal prompt on local machine ?

[Wade Majors]

Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
> Not sure if this is to do with Gnome Terminal or X itself. I'm curious
> as to how you get to use your own prompt when you open up a session
> through Gnome Terminal on your local machine ? I know how to set prompts
> in the .profile but it doesn't work when you login locally and I've
> tried adding it as a "command" but that didn't work either.
> Sorry if this may seem trivial but it's trivial things that usually
> frustrate me more when I can't figure them out.

1. Edit->Profiles
2. Select Profile and click Edit
3. Select Title and Command tab
4. Check the "Run command as a login shell" option

That should have your shell load .profile and friends

-Wade