On 18/04/06, Alan Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A weird problem with Terminal.app has arisen in which a command line > (of the form <perl file1.plx file2.txt> )gets written to the Terminal > window each time a new Terminal window is opened (File->New Shell). > > The problem seems to owe its origins to some experiments with > "ScriptGUI" to see if that app would create a 'droplet' to fulfil the > function of the command line above. Somehow a file (?) seems to have > got left somewhere (?) in the bowels of system which is 'read' by > Terminal each time a new window is opened. "ScriptGUI" itself has > subsequently been deleted. > > Can anyone suggest where to look for such a file? Where could any > 'command string' be kept in the system which would be 'written' to > the Terminal window on launch? > > The machine BTW is a G4 running Tiger 10.4.6. and for what it's > worth, both of the files referenced in the spurious command line have > been deleted. > > I would be deeply grateful to anyone for some clues as to where to > look or what to do to mitigate the nuisance (and apologise if this is > too far off-topic for this list). > > Alan Fry
Start Terminal.app and check under preferences (apple-,) If you don't see it there, quit Terminal, backup and delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist Betcha that gets it. HTH Brian
