GNOME (minimal) 24.2 uses bash instead of zsh

Hello, does Manjaro no longer use zsh for the terminal with this new version? Regards

All I can say is that I still have ZSH.Konsole on a new KDE installation (as of today).

I did a fresh install of the 24.2 Manjaro Gnome ISO and I get bash as the interpreter, not zsh.

Seems the minimal ISOs still ship with bash. Full ISO has zsh.

Probably not, because today I installed from the minimal ISO - with ZSH …

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Really odd. Which exact ISO did you use?

manjaro-kde-24.2.0-minimal-241209-linux612.iso

That I tested. So far only XFCE minimal and GNOME minimal ISOs ship with bash. Currently checking why that is …

Seems also the XFCE full ISO defaults to bash for some odd reason. Using chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh and a relogin fixes it, but still …

Hmm, /etc/default/useradd however shows zsh as default shell. Have to check more. Some is odd here.

@atreides I tested now both ISOs of the GNOME edition with 6.12 kernel from 2024-12-09. On one boot with minimal I had a bash interpreter. However, when I rebooted it was zsh then. Really odd. Might be a glitch in the Matrix …

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On the KDE minimal ISO, zsh is the default shell for Konsole, but logging into a TTY gives a bash shell.

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