It is really, really not the terminal emulator's job to set basic environment variables.
It should either be done by the environment in which gnome-terminal is started (e.g. systemd --user), so that the terminal just transparently passes this on; or should be done by the shell initialization files, as in your workaround. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1872053 Title: Local mail is never checked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1872053/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs