Custom environment with gnome-terminal

Question

I tried to put this into the startup applications:

gnome-terminal --working-directory /media/Data/work/ -e '. .env/bin/activate'

where .env/bin/activate represents my virtualenv.

For some reason, it doesn't work; the terminal starts but displays a message

Failed to execute child process "." (Permission denied)

If I just start gnome-terminal manually, and then execute .env/bin/activate, everything works fine.

What am I doing wrong? (Running Ubuntu 14.04.)

Answer 1

Try this command instead:

gnome-terminal --working-directory /media/Data/work/ -x bash --rcfile .env/bin/activate

From man bash:

 The --rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands
 from file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc.