Ah. But konsole (in KDE) *does* have the contents of .bash_profile successfully picked up. So either gnome-terminal is not picking up the environment variables set at login, or gnome isn't sourcing .bash_profile at login.
The .bashrc is ubuntu is complicated and (at least was) partially buggy. Users should use .bash_profile for their own settings, so it's important that it work properly. -- gnome-terminal not started as an "interactive shell" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250000 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs