Make `zsh` default in Plasma and XFCE editions

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Please make zsh default shell in xfce and kde plasma version.

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It’s already included in the XFCE and Plasma install images, but there’s no good reason as to why it should become the default.

bash is a trusted and reliable shell that has already long proven itself, and that is also used for the initialization of the system. zsh on the other hand is a still fairly new shell that’s popular among newcomers as an interactive shell, but it’s not really suitable as a shell for system initialization scripts.

It is either way trivial for the user to switch their default interactive shell over to zsh if they so wish. :man_shrugging:

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Thanks.

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I may have overlooked that but I don’t remember I could choose my shell when I entered my login information during the installation. Would it be possible to add a shell selector in Calamares during the user account creation step (with a default value if the user doesn’t know or care)?

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I’ve invited @philm to this thread. He’s the one maintaining calamares. :slight_smile:

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oh my god.
zsh in very very very very slow.
so manjaro developers not use zsh by default.
Thanks.

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You where the one asking for it in the first place… Didn’t you test it out, before asking? :wink:

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Hello @alireza138812 ,

In regards to

No it is not. It runs just fine on my system. I switched to zsh as a default shell only for the user.
So far I don’t have any problems with it. I use my bash aliases, the path is auto discoverable so I don’t have to export path every time something new is installed and so on…
Even ~/.profile is read by zsh because ManjaroTeam made sure that it works by default if you wish to change to zsh.

Now you do have to create ~/.zshrc or find some configs of it on the internet and make it your own :slight_smile:

In regards to zsh beeing default shell out of the box or choosable from calamares, I don’t think its necessary, because new users might get confused and other reasons bla, bla, bla… :smiley:

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Anyway, you can change the default shell by chsh or editing the file that chsh changes, so no big deal I think?

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