Re: Default shell/Full screen
Re: Default shell/Full screen
- Subject: Re: Default shell/Full screen
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:24:04 -0500
But the existence of a per-user default ("login") shell, independently
of the preferences of any particular app like Terminal or xterm, is a
Unix thing, certainly not new with Leopard.
In the absence of specific instructions to the contrary, any program
that launches a shell should use either the value of the SHELL
environment variable or, if that isnt set, the user's login shell.
On 2/19/08, Merle Reinhart <email@hidden> wrote:
> The right-click popup thing in the Accounts PrefPane is new with
> Leopard. In Tiger and earlier, one used NetInfo Manager.app to make
> those sorts of changes (of chsh from the command line).
>
> Merle
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Pierre Baguis wrote:
>
> >
> > --- Merle Reinhart <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Pierre,
> >>
> >> If you setup your default shell either via the
> >> prefpane (right click
> >> on you account and click the 'Advanced Options...'
> >> that pops up) or
> >> used the chsh command in Terminal.app, then any
> >> xterm started under
> >> X11 'should' start with you default login shell
> >> (this is bash by
> >> default until changed).
> >>
> >> If you set the shell in the Terminal.app Preferences
> >> Startup tab to
> >> NOT be the 'default login shell' and have never done
> >> one of the above,
> >> then that is your issue since the xterm will startup
> >> in what your
> >> default shell is set to.
> >>
> >> Merle
> >
> > Thanks, the accounts preference pane did the trick.
> > But is this something Leopard-specific or it was there
> > before?
> >
> > Pierre
> >
> >
> >
> >
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