Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
Add exec zsh -l at the end of your .bash_profile Chris From: Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:13 AM Subject:Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh Sent by:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, wood.ch...@tatravelcenters.com wrote: Add exec zsh -l at the end of your .bash_profile Then I cannot start X server from start menu icons. All I see in taskmanager is 1 process of bash and 1 subprocess of zsh. Chris From: Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:13 AM Subject: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh Sent by: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? -- Regards, -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
When I tried it on my system, it worked. Of course, it is not really using zsh as your login shell, since it is running inside bash, but when you exit zsh, it logs you off, which is the expected behavior. What shortcut are you using? An example of mine is C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -ls -sb 1000 -fg green -bg black Chris From: Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com To: wood.ch...@tatravelcenters.com Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:41 AM Subject:Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, wood.ch...@tatravelcenters.com wrote: Add exec zsh -l at the end of your .bash_profile Then I cannot start X server from start menu icons. All I see in taskmanager is 1 process of bash and 1 subprocess of zsh. Chris From: Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:13 AM Subject:Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh Sent by:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? -- Regards, -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
Anonymous bin ich writes: Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? All chsh does is edit the last field in /etc/passwd. You can do this yourself in any text editor (assuming you've got write access). Just change /bin/bash to /bin/zsh and you should be OK. Don't even think about hacking .bashrc, .bash_profile or .profile. If you do, then anything that tries to run bash will end up running zsh, and will probably fail. (This would include all post-install scripts run by setup.exe, so you'd probably end up with a hosed system) BTW, this is the wrong list for this topic; it has nothing to do with X. Phil -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
