Change default shell from bash to zsh by default?

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If you change the xfce4-terminal colors, it will adapt the prompt also. Not something that should be done by Zsh, but on XFCE theming directly.

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Thanks.

The character ; will continue to have space removed before it if done after tab completion.

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ok do you know how to do it similarly to kali?

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ah ok, whats the reason?

ah ok got you.

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I downloaded some Kali packages on Debian Unstable at that time and it looked good. See the last link, it is an Xfce colorscheme then you have to edit the terminal > preferences > colorscheme.
I was planning on doing the Xfce adaptation of Kali to Whonix, but got occupied.

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Thanks!

Merged and uploaded to Whonix 17 testers repository.

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The missing space before && seems fixed to me.

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setup-dist is no longer auto started with zsh. This is important for Whonix CLI.

For bash this is implemented in:

How could we do something similar for zsh?

Probably bad idea to make zsh parse /etc/profile and /etc/profile.d?

Is there an equivalent for /etc/profile.d for zsh?

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Thanks, merged!

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Should the code for parsing /etc/zprofile.d be moved to the very bottom of the script? Why:

  • Allows overwriting the defaults set beforehand.
  • Does not stop execution of defaults in case any scripts residing in /etc/zprofile.d have an issue.

Keeping in mind:

bash /etc/profile.d:

  • Parsed in “CLI” mode, i.e. login, real terminal (tty).
  • Not parsed in terminal emulator / X11.

zsh /etc/zprofile.d:

  • Parsed in “CLI” mode, i.e. login, real terminal (tty).
  • Also parsed in terminal emulator / X11.

For bash, therefore /etc/X11/Xsession.d needed to be used because there’s no /etc/bashrc.d.

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To run in login shell only so this does not re-run for all terminal emulators tuning in X11 (GUI). Pseudo code:

if ! tty | grep -q /dev/tty ; then
   true "$0: Not running in a login shell, not parsing /etc/zprofile.d folder."
   return
   exit 0
fi

Minor point: Why return and exit? return only works for sourceed. Does not work when executed (for testing purposes).

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Now that noexec made a ton of progress…

Can zsh help with the interpreter lock?

Do you think zsh restricted mode is useful for this?

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Qubes dom0:

sudo xl console vmname

Looks messed up probably due to colors.

Perhaps based on

echo "$TERM"

vt220

don’t use colors?

feature request: support the no color environment variables

Similar to dist-installer-cli.

  if test -n "${NO_COLOR:-}" || test -n "${ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED:-}"; then
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No, rzsh ,rbash or any r shell is too restricted, can’t even cd.

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Some are related to colors, but I tried removing it and it still looks very bad because of some zsh specific escape sequences that I couldn’t figure out how to disable.

Use bash when using vt220.

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