Setting fish shell as default shell in KDE plasma / Konsole

Nagawika · 21 August 2021 16:26

Hi all,

I’m having trouble setting up fish as default shell. I’m stuck with ZFH.

but i’m stuck at this command :

chsh -s /bin/fish                                        ✔ 
Changing shell for naga.
Password: 
chsh: Shell not changed

I haven’t found a solution yet, maybe some have already encountered this issue too.
I’m french, I hope my english is good enough
And its a fresh install of Manjaro.

I’ll try my best to document this issue here so that it could benefit others new manjaro users like myself.

Please can someone help me?
Kind regards.

mithrial · 21 August 2021 16:38

The path to the binary should be /usr/bin/fish.

From the ArchWiki fish - ArchWiki

papajoke · 21 August 2021 17:18

fish package installed ?
for find valid path, use

chsh -l

/bin or /usr change nothing

cat /etc/passwd | grep 'home'
patrick:x:1000:985:patrick,,,,:/home/patrick:/bin/fish

LordTermor · 21 August 2021 17:44

/bin is a link to /usr/bin nowadays.

Nagawika · 21 August 2021 18:18

It seems I have installed it several times :

chsh -l                                                                 ✔ 
/bin/sh
/bin/bash
/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/git-shell
/usr/bin/fish
/bin/fish
/bin/fish
/bin/fish
/bin/fish

I tried 4 times. how can I undo that mess ? (>.<)
the path to it should be /bin/fish isn’t it ?

Unfortunately I dont fully understand what to do for the second set of commands you suggest. should I just use my user instead of patrick ?

Many thanks !

Nagawika · 21 August 2021 18:24

here is the output :

chsh -s /usr/bin/fish                                                   ✔ 
Changing shell for naga.
Password: 
Shell changed.

but when I restart another shell prompt nothing changed.
I dont have the fish greeting message I see when i only input “fish”

Many thanks !

cfinnberg · 21 August 2021 18:31

Do you have other sessions opened at the same time? I saw I post with the same problem and the solution was to close the other sessions.

Nagawika · 21 August 2021 18:34

I only have one user, myself “naga” (and root).
only one session running.

thx

Falav · 21 August 2021 18:39

Hi, did you reboot after changing your shell?

Nagawika · 21 August 2021 19:11

Yes I did reboot my computer…
And the default shell is still ZFH.

papajoke · 21 August 2021 19:16

for verif, run

cat /etc/passwd | grep 'home'

and in terminal echo $SHELL

sometime, with konsole, we have a command by default (as zsh or bash)
perso, j’ai dans konsole, profil par défaut, commande: “/usr/bin/fish”

Nagawika · 22 August 2021 03:05

ok, here is the output :

cat /etc/passwd | grep 'home'                            ✔ 
naga:x:1000:1000:Naga:/home/naga:/usr/bin/fish

and

echo $SHELL                                              ✔  
/usr/bin/fish

linux-aarhus · 22 August 2021 04:53

A couple of days ago - we had a member with a similar issue - it turned out this member was running Plasma and the member found a setting in Plasma which in the members opinion did override the shell defined for the user.

Another possibility - depending on environment - you may have to logout and relogin for the change to have effect.