I want the Xfce terminal to run a command when it is turned on, for example print a welcome message or some system stats. I want this message to be printed only on the Xfce terminal emulator when it starts, not on some other terminal emulators. Can I achieve this effect by modifying the file terminalrc? How?
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If you absolutely want to do this, I see two approaches:
1) Make a bash (or whatever shell you use) profile script that gets the parent PID to see if it is running under xfce4-terminal, and, if so, prints your message.
2) Something like this (note you may have to re-run it after OS upgrades, or it may even befuddle your package manager into not working properly anymore):
W="$(which xfce4-terminal)" sudo cp "$W" "$W".orig sudo tee "$W" <<EOF #!/usr/bin/env bash exec ${W}.orig -e 'sh -c "echo this is xfce4-terminal ... ; bash"' EOF sudo chmod a+x "$W" 
- 1That is one ugly hack. I haven't tried it but I suppose it probably works. Your first choice would probably be nicer.Julie Pelletier– Julie Pelletier2016-12-30 07:14:32 +00:00Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 7:14
I found the solution. I added this code to the .bashrc file.
if [ $COLORTERM == "xfce4-terminal" ] then echo "Welcome to the Xfce4 Terminal" fi - 1Why you used
$COLORTERM? I think that could be sufficient writeif [ "xfce4-terminal" ]Riccardo Volpe– Riccardo Volpe2017-09-13 09:05:12 +00:00Commented Sep 13, 2017 at 9:05