Fish: Difference between revisions
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Using fish as the the login shell can cause compatibility issues. For example, certain recovery environments such as systemd's emergency mode to be completely broken when fish was set as the login shell. This limitation is noted on the [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fish#Caveats Gentoo] wiki. There they present an alternative, keeping bash as the system shell but having it exec fish when run interactively. | Using fish as the the login shell can cause compatibility issues. For example, certain recovery environments such as systemd's emergency mode to be completely broken when fish was set as the login shell. This limitation is noted on the [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fish#Caveats Gentoo] wiki. There they present an alternative, keeping bash as the system shell but having it exec fish when run interactively. | ||
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Here is one solution, which launches fish unless the parent process is already fish: | Here is one solution, which launches fish unless the parent process is already fish: | ||