Silver init doesn't recognize login shells [stable-20.10 ARM edition]

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I’m using stable-20.10, ARM, Sway Edition. I noticed that when I log in as a normal user on a text console, the silver utility crashes with an error message to the effect of

thread 'main' panicked at 'unknown $SILVER_SHELL: "-bash". Supported shells...

This is because silver does not recognize the extremely old Unix convention of setting the first character of a shell’s $0 to - to indicate a login shell. It will also be a problem for remote logins over ssh.

I reported this as a bug to silver upstream: https://github.com/reujab/silver/issues/67. However, I would like to suggest the following workaround in /etc/skel/.bashrc:

-export SILVER_SHELL=$0 # bash, zsh, or fish
+export SILVER_SHELL=${0#-} # bash, zsh, or fish

which strips the problem dash off before silver can see it.

(Is this the right place to report bugs? I have several more and I’ve not been able to find any official bug tracker or guidelines for how to report bugs.)

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Hey looks like you have posted in the wrong section.

@appelgriebsch is the maintainer for sway arm edition.

He will be able to help you with your query.

Moving thread to ARM section.

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Thanks for the feedback. Will try to incorporate the changes for the upcoming 20.12 release cycle.

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Gitlab repo got updated: [sway] small fix for silver init, additional cli packages (37826bb5) · Commits · manjaro-arm / applications / arm-profiles · GitLab.

Change will go into new Sway image release.

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