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As a title, or in other words is possible assign in bash launcher a custom .bashrc?

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You can pass the --title argument to gnome-terminal, though it will likely get overwritten. You can also use --working-directory to specify a specific path that the new terminal is opened to. And finally, you can use the --command option to specify what command to run. Like so:

gnome-terminal --command "bash --rcfile ~/.bashrc-special"
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Another option is gnome-terminal -x bash -c 'cd /whatever/path; exec bash' which avoids the need for a separate bashrc. Yet another option, which applies specifically to gnome-terminal, is that if you open a gnome-terminal (the "usual" way) and hit Ctrl+Shift+N, a new terminal is opened, with the cwd set to the same as the current gnome-terminal's shell has. – geirha Mar 28 '12 at 19:21
@geirha Yes, but that is a very complicated way to just do gnome-terminal --working-directory /whatever/path. :) – dobey Mar 28 '12 at 19:23
aye, but it can be applied to most terminal emulators, e.g. with uxterm: uxterm -e 'cd /whatever/path; exec bash'. I agree with your answer. I merely intended to expand on it. – geirha Mar 28 '12 at 19:25
Hi, thanks for answer... little problem: have used the original gnome-terminal.desktop file for my launcher and have changed in this:TryExec=gnome-terminal --working-directory "~/Works" Exec=gnome-terminal --working-directory "~/Works" but don't work...where have to add the argument? – byterussian Mar 28 '12 at 19:30
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@Angelbit, in the shell, ~ gets replaced with your home directory (or more correctly, the value of the HOME environment variable). The Exec=-line in a .desktop file is not interpreted by a shell, and does not replace ~ with the value of HOME. Variable expansions on the Exec=-line are honored though, so Exec=gnome-terminal --working-directory "$HOME/Works" should work. – geirha Mar 28 '12 at 19:56
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