Hi Martin, Martin wrote: > When setting ZSH as the default shell, /etc/profile is never sourced
What do you exactly mean by "setting ZSH as the default shell"? A) Using it as login shell for a specific user. B) Letting the /bin/sh symlink point to it. Case B is definitely not supported and explicitly discouraged by upstream. > /etc/profile.d/apps-bin-path.sh adds /var/lib/snapd/desktop to > XDG_DATA_DIRS. Setting the default shell to ZSH means that desktop > environments suddenly can't launch snap packages. This sounds more like case B to me. > Arch Linux's zsh package has `emulate sh -c 'source /etc/profile'` in > /etc/zsh/zprofile. Either Ubuntu's zsh package should do the same (or > something similar), or Ubuntu must put important environment variable > stuff somewhere else and have only bash-specific stuff in /etc/profile > and /etc/profile.d. IMHO the latter needs to happen. Zsh upstream does not source /etc/profile and users won't expect it to do that and doing it will probably cause other user irritations and unexcpected subtle side effects. See https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article25/shrc for reference what each shell loads in which case. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1800280 Title: Setting ZSH as the default shell causes various issues because it doesn't source /etc/profile To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zsh/+bug/1800280/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs