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From: Anonymous bin ich <ichbinanon@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82839db61002090613q71ad993i3441ea83b7b65573@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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?

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-09 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-09 14:13 Anonymous bin ich [this message]
2010-02-09 14:24 ` Wood.Chris
2010-02-09 14:41   ` Anonymous bin ich
2010-02-09 14:58     ` Wood.Chris
2010-02-09 15:35 ` Phil Betts

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