Bug has been rejected by upstream, doing the same. Feel free to read the bug pointed for details about that. Basically they argue that it would be an ugly hack and that there is no reason to force changes on an environment already running
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Rejected -- gnome-terminal not made aware of http_proxy preference changes made post-login https://launchpad.net/bugs/40360 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs