asked 2013-12-29 11:34:59 +0200
Fingerterm startup currently doesn't seem to execute ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc files. I think it would be nice improvement if the standard shell startup (bash) worked like it does in Unix/Linux systems.
Edit: Fixed in 1.0.8.19.
answered 2014-01-08 21:32:32 +0200
This is happening, because all applications are launched with invoker, and invoker sets POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable, which causes bash to start in posix mode. Temporary fix would be editing the fingerterm.desktop file's exec line as follows:
/usr/share/applications/fingerterm.desktop:
-------------------------------------------
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Terminal
#Exec=fingerterm
Exec=sh -c "cd ~; unset POSIXLY_CORRECT; exec fingerterm"
Icon=icon-l-terminal
For some reason bash doesn't invoke correctly with just "env -u POSIXLY_CORRECT fingerterm", I don't know why. Invoker should however at least clean that environment variable after it isn't anymore needed in option parsing. Posix mode probably explains also other troubles with commands in fingerterm.
EDIT: This will be fixed in update 8. Issue #22
answered 2014-01-04 13:31:52 +0200
I hesitate a bit to submit this as an answer, because I didn't manage to coax bash into reading its rcfiles when started from fingerterm
But I think zsh is close enough to bash to be comfortble for bash users (I may be biased, as i use zsh as my login shell), and, importantly, zsh does honour its rcfiles when run from fingerterm
So: as root do
# pkcon install zsh
# chsh -s /bin/zsh nemo
If you want to fine-tune a few things (starting in home directory, dropping unnecessary privileges) you might want to use a wrapper script for fingerterm.
To install zsh, enable Mer-Tools repository as per step 5 in the instructions on:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=92036
Copy/paste from that page:
5) additional softwares in mer-tools repository, e.g. :
dosfstools, emacs, git, htop, less, mtools, parted, powertop, rsync, ruby 1.9.3, strace, sudo, tcl/tk 8.5.12, zsh.
First enable the repository by entering root (with Developer Mode password) :
$ devel-su
ssu ar mer-tools
ssu ur
$ pkcon refresh
And then:
pkcon install zsh
answered 2014-01-06 10:46:58 +0200
As a temporary fix as I didn't want to mess with changing the fingerterm shortcut to a local ssh I added a menu entry by editing /home/nemo/.config/FingerTerm/menu.xml to read:
<item>
<title>init</title>
<command>cd /home/nemo\r . .bashrc\r</command>
</item>
Asked: 2013-12-29 11:34:59 +0200
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Last updated: Jul 16 '14
For some reason when fingerterm is launched through /usr/bin/invoker (that's what happens when you launch it from fingerterm's icon), /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile.d/* and /home/${USER}/.bashrc are not sourced.. This doesn't happen if you launch explicitly fingerterm from command line, over SSH.
Milo ( 2013-12-29 13:31:04 +0200 )editI would change this to "Make Fingerterm use standard bash". If I try to run "rpm -q bash -i" I get "package -i is not installed". The same command in ssh or even in fingerterm launched from ssh works fine.
etam ( 2013-12-30 00:02:47 +0200 )editI've got some more info about FingerTerm:
- It starts sh not bash.
- It should read config from .config/FingerTerm/settings.ini, but every time I change something, it overwrites it with default one.
etam ( 2013-12-30 01:07:34 +0200 )editAnd obey /etc/password which for users nemo and root (for devel-su) has set shell to /bin/bash.
mcfrisk ( 2014-04-17 12:08:18 +0200 )edit