keyboard shortcuts - Redhat linux terminal profile location

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2014-07
  • Dinesh

    I am using VNC to connect to a remote machine where I used to set preferences for the terminal like my own keyboard shortcuts.

    Can anybody tell me where these profile configuration is getting saved ?

    The reason is, sometimes, I may loose the VNC and later I may have to create new VNC session for that red-hat server and I am loosing my terminal profile information.

    Because of this, I am forced to do my custom terminal profile settings redundantly.

    • Answers
  • mtak

    The location of the config file is depending on the terminal application being used. If you are using Gnome Terminal the settings are stored in ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal.


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    I have set my terminal preferences to execute:

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    The .profile file in MacOSX works exactly how you would expect. Simply create the .profile file in your user directory if it doesn't exist.

  • pjmorse

    Because, as noted, Terminal has used bash by default for a few versions, you may want to keep an eye out for a .bash_profile file if .profile isn't present. See the "which startup files are read by the shell?" FAQ at http://hayne.net/MacDev/Notes/unixFAQ.html#shellStartup which explain how the different files are used and the order in which they're read at startup.