I'm a freelance UNIX engineer working in the UK. I'm married to Tina and between us we have six children. I'm a bit of an Apple fan boy, and all the Windows machines in the house are a thing of the past now.
If your gnome-terminal is not running your lovely .profile that you
spent ages writing, right-click on the gnome terminal icon, choose
properties and add "–login" to the end of the parameters box.