lightdm use zsh as login shell

BorisBera · 2015-02-04 20:02:48

I am currently using lightdm as my login manager. I am also using zsh as my shell. I have a lot of settings in my zprofile zshenv and zshrc files. I would like to have lightdm load my zprofile zshenv and zshrc so that all my environment variables are configured properly on my desktop.

Is there a way to do this?

runical · 2015-02-04 21:31:15

If you switched the login shell to ZSH for your user, this will happen automatically. There is an article on the wiki describing how to change the login shell.

BorisBera · 2015-02-05 05:10:26

I have had zsh as my default shell the whole time. It's not working.

When I open a terminal, zsh opens up and loads zshenv and zshrc as it should. It doesn't load zprofile since opening a terminal doesn't start a login shell. Of course this is only for the current zsh session. Nothing is loaded for the actual desktop process (In my case awesome).

In my zprofile I set the add a few entries to the path. When I open up a terminal these paths are not set in the environment. It is probably because zprofile never gets loaded at all.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-02-05 07:24:02

ArchWiki wrote:

/etc/profile is not a part of the regular list of startup files run for Zsh, but is sourced from /etc/zsh/zprofile in the zsh package. Users should take note that /etc/profile sets the $PATH variable which will overwrite any $PATH variable set in ~/.zshenv. To prevent this, please set the $PATH variable in ~/.zshrc. (It's not recommended to replace the default one line in /etc/zsh/zprofile with something other, it'll break the integrality of other packages which provide some scripts in /etc/profile.d)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zs … ault_shell

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#1 2015-02-04 20:02:48

lightdm use zsh as login shell

#2 2015-02-04 21:31:15

Re: lightdm use zsh as login shell

#3 2015-02-05 05:10:26

Re: lightdm use zsh as login shell

#4 2015-02-05 07:24:02

Re: lightdm use zsh as login shell

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