Discussion on: Setup terminal with zsh on windows

[Ben Sinclair]

What you are doing in your .bashrc is really strange:

bash -c zsh

This means your system will load bash, then immediately load bash again, and finally load zsh.

If you use chsh you can set which login shell you use directly.

[RD]

hmm. thnx Ben.

chsh worked for me, only when I launch 'Ubuntu' app from start menu.

BUT, as I am using Hyper terminal and have configured its shell as below

shell: 'C:\\Windows\\System32\\bash.exe',

It always starts bash irrespective of the shell set in /etc/passwd either with chsh or usermod -s

So had to add bash -c zsh in .bashrc
Though, can be summoned with just zsh in the .bashrc.

Let me know, if there is any workaround to this situation!

[Ben Sinclair]

Hmm, not sure. I use Windows Terminal and it's configured to run wsl.exe -d Ubuntu instead of a shell directly.
Windows Terminal is alright. It's very slow, but last time I used Hyper Terminal that was even slower!

[RD]

Cool 👍

I just switched to Hyper. Lets see how it behaves with time.

Thanks

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For all,
Terminals are UI layer. The above setup will work fine with CMD too.
Below is the screenshot for same [with autosuggestion also]