no way to run commands as a login shell in terminal

Question

I'm using ruby version manager rvm which requires its commands to be run in a login shell.

gnome-terminal provides an option for commands to run as a login shell as described here.

however, there's not any similar option in patheon-terminal. is there a work around for this issue?

Answer 1

Setting the shell key to bash --login doesn't work, however I managed to fix that with the following workaround:

create a file named bashlogin in /bin directory with the following content

#!/bin/sh
exec bash --login

mark it as executable

sudo chmod +x /bin/bashlogin

and finally set the terminal shell key

gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings shell 'bashlogin'

Answer 2

You can set the key shell under org.pantheon.terminal.settings in dconf-editor or via the command line:

gsettings set org.pantheon.terminal.settings shell 'bash --login'

Answer 3

If like me you use zsh :

change

#!/bin/sh
exec bash --login

by :

#!/bin/zsh
exec zsh --login