-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-05-12 13:19, Jan Stolarek wrote: >> This part of your message I do not understand. What is the >> "context menu in Yakuake"? > It the menu you get by right-clicking in Yakuake terminal. I was not aware of this possibility. I think I was really expecting a tool bar such as appears in Konsole. Since yakuake does not have one I I did not believe that yakuake had a context menu. Thanks for telling me about it. > It allows you to set fonts, colours, etc. Once you've done that > you need to select "Save as default" from the menu. An alternative > is to select "Use Konsole settings" to have Yakuake always mimic > Konsole settings (as the option name implies). Indeed. I was able to select my desired colour scheme. >> I tried the following script, called "yakuake-start", in >> directory ~/.trinity/Autostart: >> >> #!/bin/bash yakuake --bg black -- fg green cd ~ >> >> and unchecked the "restore previous session" option described >> above. On log in yakuake started but the colour options were >> ignored. > I actually know nothing about these command-line color options - > can't help here. > >> Furthermore, the cd command was also ignored; yakuake opened in >> the directory ~/.trinity/Autostart, not in my home directory. > Yes, that's exactly what you told it to do :-) That `cd ~` is not > a command executed in yakuake but in the shell process that is > running the script. If you want a newly opened shell to start in a > particular directory you can do this by editing your ~/.bashrc. I > don't know how to execute a script on yakuake start, but I suppose > that's doable. Try googling this. I changed the yabuake-start script to read as follows: #!/bin/bash/ cd ~ yakuake With the colour selection determined as described above and with this script, yakuake now opens the way I want it, in the home directory and with my colours. Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlNxJeAACgkQlNlJzOkJmTeTpACfQ80hwrtF8EIzLWIqC/8D5aYD VroAn1MwV5N2AWOvuyUVEOLjAImS2+Go =yNIz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----