Has anyone tried changing the shell?

[edwinb-ai]

I personally have been using the fish shell for quite some time, and I tried changing it but there is not much integration with the rest of Omarchy. Perhaps the zsh shell might be a better choice. In any case, I was wondering if anyone has tried changing the shell hoping they share some advice on how to do it.

[snek]

I don't know if it's still the case but I changed to fish shell way at the beginning but it broke various things because hyprland is started from bash. I'm not sure this is still the case.

What I recommend is and how I solved the issue is by changing the Alacritty config to just start the shell you want to use in the terminal window. This shouldn't break anything as far as I've experienced

You need to edit

~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml

And add the terminal.shell part.

general.import = [ "~/.config/omarchy/current/theme/alacritty.toml" ]

[env]
TERM = "xterm-256color"

[font]
normal = { family = "CaskaydiaMono Nerd Font", style = "Regular" }
bold = { family = "CaskaydiaMono Nerd Font", style = "Bold" }
italic = { family = "CaskaydiaMono Nerd Font", style = "Italic" }
size = 9

[window]
padding.x = 14
padding.y = 14
decorations = "None"
opacity = 0.98

[keyboard]
bindings = [
{ key = "F11", action = "ToggleFullscreen" }
]

################ ADD THIS PART #############
[terminal.shell]
program = "/usr/bin/fish"
args = ["-l"]
############################################

After you install a shell you need to find the location of executable. In my case I installed fish and found the location using which fish

Hope this helps

[Sgierek106]

I recently reinstalled Omarchy due to #688. I simply used the chsh command to change my shell to fish and then rebooted, and it seems to work pretty well.

NOTE: If you use any of the Omarchy aliases, you'll need to recreate them in fish. For your reference, the existing aliases can be found in the omarchy repo under default/bash/aliases.

To recreate the same aliases in fish, I created a new shell script with the following:

#!/usr/bin/fish

# File system
alias --save ls='eza -lh --group-directories-first --icons=auto'
alias --save lsa='ls -a'
alias --save lt='eza --tree --level=2 --long --icons --git'
alias --save lta='lt -a'
alias --save ff="fzf --preview 'bat --style=numbers --color=always {}'"

# Directories
alias --save ..='cd ..'
alias --save ...='cd ../..'
alias --save ....='cd ../../..'

# Tools
alias --save g='git'
alias --save d='docker'
alias --save r='rails'

# Git
alias --save gcm='git commit -m'
alias --save gcam='git commit -a -m'
alias --save gcad='git commit -a --amend'

Make it executable, run it once, and then you should be good to go.

[keanehatescoding]

Changing your default shell is not recommended it better to change the shell your terminal uses. This is mostly due to the compatibility needed for running posix scripts in a non posix compliant script.
Anyway I don't use Omarchy but to change the default shell to fish for kitty add this to your ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf file
shell fish

[omarahmed786]

So what is the best way to set fish as my shell for when I use the terminal (without causing issues with boot)?

Would adding the following to my .bashrc work? (taken from https://github.com/omacom-io/omarchy-fish/blob/master/templates/bashrc)

# Auto-launch fish shell if in interactive bash
if command -v fish &> /dev/null; then
	if [[ $(ps --no-header --pid=$PPID --format=comm) != "fish" && -z ${BASH_EXECUTION_STRING} && ${SHLVL} == 1 ]]
	then
		shopt -q login_shell && LOGIN_OPTION='--login' || LOGIN_OPTION=''
		exec fish $LOGIN_OPTION
	fi
fi

[lbonvarl]

Hello,
I use omarchy with zsh as login shell (changed via chsh) and zsh4humans.
Despite the warnings of limited support, try this one out: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh4humans. Way better in performance than omyzsh and excellent default config. See this: I have bash in its standard starship config and zsh with zsh4humans as my new standard shell (changed just via chsh). tested on an old HP6200 with i7 2600 and SSD.

❯ hyperfine "bash -l"
Benchmark 1: bash -l
  Time (mean ± σ):      62.0 ms ±  12.9 ms    [User: 37.0 ms, System: 33.2 ms]
  Range (min … max):    55.5 ms … 121.4 ms    24 runs

  Warning: The first benchmarking run for this command was significantly slower than the rest (121.4 ms). This could be caused by (filesystem) caches that were not filled until after the first run. You should consider using the '--warmup' option to fill those caches before the actual benchmark. Alternatively, use the '--prepare' option to clear the caches before each timing run.

❯ hyperfine "zsh -l"
Benchmark 1: zsh -l
  Time (mean ± σ):       1.8 ms ±   0.5 ms    [User: 1.0 ms, System: 0.8 ms]
  Range (min … max):     0.8 ms …   3.6 ms    1153 runs

  Warning: Command took less than 5 ms to complete. Note that the results might be inaccurate because hyperfine can not calibrate the shell startup time much more precise than this limit. You can try to use the `-N`/`--shell=none` option to disable the shell completely.

[pjv]

I just installed fish and then stuck this at the bottom of the .bashrc:

exec fish

IGNORE ME (and see comments below)

[lbonvarl]

You need to change the login shell via chsh command

[pjv]

to gain what?

when i open a terminal on the omarchy box, either directly or via ssh, I'm in fish. All of my fish config works perfectly. When i type exit, the session closes (i don't end up back in bash). my env contains SHELL=/usr/bin/fish. What would running chsh change?

[pjv]

ARGGHHH - Sorry! I've just discovered that my ansible playbook which I used to set up all my fish dotfiles does indeed run chsh. So my exec fish in the .bashrc is not actually doing anything.

[Gauthier13]

Hello, i'm new to linux and omarchy and i tried to used zsh by doing this:

• installing zsh by following https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zsh#Third-party_extensions
• add : command = /bin/zsh to my ghostty config file (every time i open my terminal, it runs with zsh)

This is my ghostty config file:

###### Dynamic theme colors
config-file = ?"~/.config/omarchy/current/theme/ghostty.conf"

###### Font
font-family = "JetBrainsMonoNL Nerd Font Mono"
font-style = Regular
font-size = 9

######Window
window-padding-x = 14
window-padding-y = 14
confirm-close-surface=false
resize-overlay = never

#####Cursor stlying
cursor-style = "block"
cursor-style-blink = false
shell-integration-features = no-cursor

##### Keyboard bindings
keybind = f11=toggle_fullscreen

command = /bin/zsh

This is my zshrc file:

##### Lines configured by zsh-newuser-install
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILE=~/.histfile
SAVEHIST=1000
bindkey -e
##### End of lines configured by zsh-newuser-install
##### The following lines were added by compinstall
zstyle :compinstall filename '/home/goat/.zshrc'

autoload -Uz compinit
compinit
##### End of lines added by compinstall

eval "$(starship init zsh)"


##### Cargo
[ -f "$HOME/.cargo/env" ] && source "$HOME/.cargo/env"

##### NVM (Node Version Manager)
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.config/nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && source "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"

##### Zoxide 
eval "$(zoxide init zsh)"

###### Zsh auto-complete & highlight
source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
source /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

Then if:

• I do : echo $0 i get /bin/zsh
• I do : echo $SHELL i get /usr/bin/bash

Bash is still my default shell but zsh is running when i open ghostty.

To be honest, i don't know if this is a great way of doing things but i have the result i was looking for. If someone more experimented could give an advice on this, i'd be more than happy to learn from you !

[lbonvarl]

I recommend you remove your changes in ghostty conf, and you can install https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
This well take tou through the steps of setting up zsh with a nice and fast prompt.
To change shell, you need to change shell via
chsh and then select '/usr/bin/zsh' or '/usr/bin/bash' depending on your preference

[Gauthier13]

Thank you for the chsh command ! Why do you recommend switching to p10k ?

[lbonvarl]

For zsh features / performance, it is the best I found with sane defaults.

[alexhraber]

I tried swapping to zsh and omarchy didn't like it. I switched back to bash and even had to do some manual cleanup to get things working right again.

[damirsehic]

When you say omarchy didn't like it. How so?
I haven't noticed anything out of place... yet...

[alexhraber]

When you say omarchy didn't like it. How so?

I haven't noticed anything out of place... yet...

That's an old comment, I've since got zsh working entirely with znap and starship.

[ozltr]

Omarchy bash -> Zsh

I just managed to port most of the functionality from "omarchy default bash settings" into zsh. This was a combination of several files in different places and some agent assistance. I'm not a super user yet with things like zoxide and fzf, so cant verify all functionality. The same with all bash completion modification.

What I learned

Omarchy is pre configured with bash "customization"/modding. But you cant source these right into zsh, because zsh has their own syntax for the same functionality. So it was mostly asking an agent what the different bash customization meant and then looking into zsh docs finding the equivalent.

[NixBiks]

Changing to zsh and fish are getting official support

• https://github.com/omacom-io/omarchy-zsh
• https://github.com/omacom-io/omarchy-fish

[muvaf]

It doesn't seem like it has feature parity though. I see only functions and aliases set for zsh while the bash support has many more:

> cat ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/bash/rc
source ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/bash/shell
source ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/bash/aliases
source ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/bash/functions
source ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/bash/prompt
source ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/bash/init
source ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/bash/envs
[[ $- == *i* ]] && bind -f ~/.local/share/omarchy/default/bash/inputrc