dpkg-reconfigure dash -> select no.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Dennis Cote <denn...@harding.ca> wrote: > On Friday, March 14, 2014 2:08:00 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> Here is a better fix: >> >> sudo sed -i -e 's:Exec=lxterminal:Exec=lxterminal -l -e bash:g' >> /usr/share/applications/lxterminal.desktop >> > > As far as I can tell by using ps - p $$, lxterminal is already running > bash, so adding -e bash shouldn't change anything. Adding the -l make it a > login shell, so it sources /etc/profile and then .profile, which sources > .bashrc if it exists. > > Without this change lxterminal runs bash as a non login shell so it > sources /etc/bash.bashrc and then .bashrc instead. The /etc/bash.bashrc > file setups the command prompt. > > What I don't understand is why an lxterminal command with no options > starts a bash shell, but an lxterminal -l command starts a /bin/sh shell > which is actually a dash shell. You end up with no command prompt because > it doesn't run /etc/bash.bashrc. There are probably other differences. This > is why you added the -e bash option. > > Anyway this does seem like a better fix, though anything that runs /bin/sh > will still have a different PATH without the user bin directory. > > Dennis Cote > > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
