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to: Tony Williams
from: Randall Parker
date: 2006-07-22 16:49:48
subject: Re: Get to bash shell from Gnome?

From: Randall Parker 

Tony Williams wrote:
> You can make copies of terminal icons and edit their individual startup
> parameters. I don't use Gnome these days, but I don't recall it being
> difficult - look for the part of the emulator command which runs bash
> and change it to something like "(cd /whatever/directory;/bin/bash)".

That does not work because the cd command does not yet have a bash
interpreter to interpret it yet.

Error
Could not launch child application
Details: Failed to execute child process "cd" (no such file or directory)

>
> There are many other ways, but that seems the simplest one likely to work.
>

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