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Can't change the default shell

Open FreeBirdLjj opened this issue 11 years ago • 6 comments

I use finalterm which is offered by the apt-get, after I chsh to zsh, other terminators all start with zsh, but finalterm still regard bash as its default shell. BTW, this happens in Ubuntu 13.04.

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FreeBirdLjj avatar Sep 25 '13 07:09 FreeBirdLjj

A simple search through the currently open issue, you will find it's a duplicate of issue #26, https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/issues/26

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Junjie LU [email protected] wrote:

I use finalterm which is offered by the apt-get, after I chsh to zsh, other terminators all start with zsh, but finalterm still regard bash as its default shell. BTW, this happens in Ubuntu 13.04.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/issues/202 .

Regards, Qinfeng

qinfeng avatar Sep 25 '13 08:09 qinfeng

There are two issues here:

  1. Ability to change the shell: This already exists, and is implemented through dconf (https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/blob/master/data/org.gnome.finalterm.gschema.xml#L47)
  2. (Semantic) support for shells other than bash: This is a duplicate of https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm/issues/26

p-e-w avatar Oct 05 '13 09:10 p-e-w

Emm, in fact I want the finalterm it automatically finds the environmental variables in my OS, not in a manual way. Maybe this is not a purpose of finalterm, but any other terminal accomplishes this function, and I think people already regards this function as a default function of terminal. So I hope the finalterm can also make it, this function should have been accomplished, and I finally decide to report it as an issue.

FreeBirdLjj avatar Oct 05 '13 09:10 FreeBirdLjj

I see your point. I might get back to this issue at a later time.

p-e-w avatar Oct 06 '13 09:10 p-e-w

I don't see myself using finalterm as a permanent terminal until I can replace it with chsh. +1

samsullivan avatar Nov 10 '14 21:11 samsullivan

As an update, I added the finalterm executable to my /etc/shells file and was then able to use chsh (followed by a reboot). However, when launching a terminal it would run the finalterm executable through the default terminal (meaning I had two terminals open).

I found that in Linux Mint, you could add custom keybindings to overwrite ctrl + alt + T. This worked perfectly for me :)

samsullivan avatar Nov 10 '14 21:11 samsullivan