ZSH and byobu

What version of byobu?

And what is your default shell in /etc/passwd?

byobu -v
and
grep $USER /etc/passwd

Thanks for the quick reply. I will check the version and default shell when I get home. Thanks

Here is the info you requested:

]$ byobu -v
byobu version 2.38
Screen version 4.00.03jw4 (FAU) 2-May-06

$ grep $USER /etc/passwd
beau:x:1000:1000:beau,,,:/home/beau:/bin/bash

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Beau Bechdol <email address hidden> wrote:
> $ grep $USER /etc/passwd
> beau:x:1000:1000:beau,,,:/home/beau:/bin/bash

Your default shell is bash. Byobu just opens your default shell for each menu.

If you want to change your default shell, use "chsh", and switch it to zsh.

:-Dustin

I did that, Still the same outcome. I ran the chsh command like so. Maybe I didn't do it right

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Another thing is when I run

less /etc/shells

It shows I have 2 zsh shells. One in /bin/zsh and another in /usr/bin/zsh. Could this be an issue?

You need to log out of your current desktop session (and possibly any shells) for the change to take effect.

I just did this on my desktop and it worked perfectly.

sudo apt-get install zsh
chsh -s /bin/zsh
(logout of byobu, all shells, desktop, log back in)
Launch gnome-terminal
byobu

And I'm getting zsh shells on all of my byobu windows now.

Hmm I did do that and still the same. Let me restart the machine and see if that changes anything

Well now when I start a terminal it starts my z shell. But when I start byobu it is still a bash shell.

Have you customized your byobu configuration?

Could you backup your byobu setup, and launch a new session?

mkdir $HOME/byobu_backup
mv $HOME/.screenrc $HOME/.byobu $HOME/byobu_backup

And then launch a new byobu session.

Also, I see that I added a related fix for zsh in byobu-2.41.

You might try adding the Byobu PPA and upgrading to the latest version there.

I will try that. It has been awhile since I had to add a PPA to my sources. How do you go about doing that?