Re: having trouble with virtualenvwrapper - need to run 'source ~/.profile' every time.

The file you want (assuming that your shell is bash) is .bashrc because it is run every time a bash shell is started, even if it is not a login shell.

Note, however, that settings that shouldn't be done multiple times, such as appending ":$HOME/bin" to the PATH, should be protected with an if so they only happen once, no matter how many sub-shells you start (such as by running something in parentheses), so that PATH doesn't grow without bound.  The WORKON_HOME and PROJECT_HOME settings don't suffer from this problem because it doesn't hurt to set them again to the same value.  I don't know about sourceing virtualenvwrapper.sh.  (Guard variables are your friend.)

For some of this stuff it may also be possible to set the environment of the X session, making it available in the environment of shells that are started by the window manager, but you'll have to do your own research on that.

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Jimmy Pants <jpaskaruk@gmail.com> wrote:

Does gnome-terminal make sense to you in this context? I popped up "edit" on the terminal launcher and that's in the Application field. I would, theoretically, add whatever option for gnome-terminal specifies it as a login shell?

Testing this, I added --login to the field, per this page, but it didn't ask for a login, nor did it run .profile.

Not sure if I'm barking up the proper tree here, natch.

On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 10:37:03 AM UTC-5, Thomas wrote:

On 10/16/13 8:29 AM, Jimmy Pants wrote:

...every time I open a terminal, that is. As I understand it, .profile is the file to edit in Linux Mint, and it does exist, with some basic code in it, in my home dir. So, per this tutorial, I added the following to .profile:

Your terminal is being opened without specifying it as a "login shell". Not sure which terminal program you are using so you will need to check on options; for xterm it is the -ls option.

hth

                          - Tom

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