From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Randall Parker wrote:
> Aside: The other day I met the original creator of bash, Brian Fox. He
> lives in the town I live in and I am collaborating a bit with a guy who
> works for him.
>
> Anyway, I have Linux Fedora 5 with Gnome desktop installed. I can't find
> a way to tell Gnome to spawn a bash shell. Am I missing something obvious?
>
> Also, is there a way to set up different icons for starting bash shells
> where each one would be configured to start in a different subdirectory?
> I want my initial one to spawn in my home dir. But I'd like to add
> others that start at other places.

executable bash script on your desktop which sets itself to that dir &
returns the prompt?

Don't know about gnome but with kde if you're in konqueror & you're
browsing to a folder click "Tools" & then "open
Terminal" & it will be set to that dir.

or press F4

Adam

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