From: Tony Williams 

Randall Parker wrote:
> 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.

Ah, of course. I'm too used to starting everything from within an existing
shell. One of the many other ways would be "/bin/bash
--init-file /home/whoever/my-init-file-1".

I see you already have a working solution though, so it's all good.

--
Tony

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