Shells in tmux are started out of nothing, not from another shell, so using login shells is the right thing to do.
You can change it by setting default-command. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:21:30PM +0300, Lauri Tirkkonen wrote: > Hi, > > tmux seems to start user shells always as login shells in new windows. > Why? I would expect it not to because no other terminal program I know > of does this -- it can make the behavior quite unexpected on some > systems (eg. new windows always print motd, reinitialize environment > variables, etc. and whatever the administrator of the system has > configured for login shells). > > This seems to be intended and from what I can see is not configurable > either: window.c:890: > > /* No command; fork a login shell. */ > > if (ptr != NULL && *(ptr + 1) != '\0') > > xasprintf(&argv0, "-%s", ptr + 1); > > > So why does it do this? I'm aware of the use-case of using tmux as a > user's login shell, and I guess executing the actual shell as login > would make sense in that case, but I don't think it does in others. > > -- > Lauri Tirkkonen | +358 50 5341376 | lotheac @ IRCnet > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Put Bad Developers to Shame > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
