Making zsh the default

Tue Jan 28 13:44:00 GMT 2003

On 2003年1月27日, Virginia Mann wrote:
> This is probably a dumb question, but I'm a real newbie, so here goes....
>> What is the proper way to make zsh the default shell in Cygwin? I installed 
> it and can start it up by typing "zsh" at a bash prompt, but how do I make 
> it take the place of the bash shell entirely?

The latest version of zsh for Cygwin (4.0.6-2) has a shell script which
creates a desktop and/or menu item specifically for starting a zsh shell. 
$ mkzsh --desktop
This'll create a desktop icon named 'Cygwin Zsh' which will open a window
and start a zsh shell. mkzsh creates a batch filenamed zsh.bat, which is
what the icon runs, so you can modify it as you like. Sorry, no doc for
mkzsh, but it's basically a wrapper around mkshortcut (which does have a
manpage :)
> Thanks.

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