I've been searching for a while now, and it keeps annoying me: while i like the Terminal application that comes with Slack 13, I just can't seem to make it read /etc/profile, ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc

Since I really like the settings, like showing me the directory I'm in rather than having a PS1 that shows which version of Bash I'm running (if I wanted to know that bash --version would give far more information anyway).

Anyone who has a clue how to make Terminal (it seems to be a xfce application) read a proper environment?

Are you sure it's not reading ~/.bashrc? In order to get it to read ~/.bash_profile, you'd need to make it run as a login shell, but it should pick up your ~/.bashrc.

How are you starting X? Which DE/WM? It's possible your DM is messing things up, but then you should have the same problems in all terminal emulators.

ack, I thought I had tried out about all options, seems like I missed .bashrc - works now ;-)
I start KDE through KDM, I pretty much left the system mostly on the defaults, as most of it works for me ;-)

Thanks