Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh

[Wood.Chris@tatravelcenters.com]

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 <ichbinanon@gmail.com>
To:     Wood.Chris@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.Chris@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 <ichbinanon@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-owner@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,
>
>
>
>
>



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