Re: Question about setting X11 login shell
Re: Question about setting X11 login shell
- Subject: Re: Question about setting X11 login shell
- From: David Fang <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 02:27:08 -0500 (EST)
> I have typically used tcsh as my Mac X11 login shell since this was
> the default in the earlier versions of OSX. Recently, it seems that
> every time I reboot my computer it, X11 comes up under bash rather
> than tcsh. This started happening sometime around when I either did
> the OS 10.4.8 upgrade or the latest X11 (1.1.3) upgrade. I see no
> strong virtues for changing over to bash (this would require changing
> many of my settings) and would like to stick with tcsh. In checking
> Netinfo, it still has tcsh listed as my default shell. Also, in the
> Terminal application preferences I have set tcsh as my default. Yet,
> X11 still comes up under bash and the only way I can reset this is to
> type "chsh -s tcsh myusername", exit X11 and relaunch X11. However,
> this only persists until my next reboot. Does anyone know how to tell
> X11 to permanently use tcsh as the default login shell and not bash?
Hi,
Run:
$ chsh
at the prompt and answer with /bin/tcsh
This reassociates your login shell.
(Also happens to be the first thing I do when I fire up a fresh Mac)
Fang
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