How to run a command at login

Question

So I've been looking around and I can find ways to run commands every time you open a new terminal and inadvertently figured out how to make a continuous loop of opening terminals.

I've edited .bashrc .bash_login .bash_profile .bash_alias .profile (each separately) and nothing has worked besides the .profile and .bash_alias but this happens EVERY time I open a new terminal. I even made my own scrip and added it to the /.config/startup/ .desktop Nothing..

All I want is when I login a terminal opens (already set in startup app) then run something like ls -l and df -h or whatever else I could want further down the line.

Even better if there's some way to open another terminal after that to work from and without creating that continuous loop..

This is what I want my desktop to look like at login:

Thanks!

Answer 1

What you want is this:

gnome-terminal -e 'bash -c "df;bash"' 

The gnome-terminal by default runs any single command passed to it as single shot and exits. Thus you want to call a single command capable of running multiple, which is what bash -c "df;bash" does - it will run df, then spawn another instance of bash and prevent window from exiting one df completes execution.

Finally, add that to startup applications