when i chsh to zsh it seems to get replaced with fish (garuda)

Question

I ran a fresh install of garuda dragonised,it comes with a fish shell by default. I had no experience with this so asked the installer to add zsh -which it did along with config files.

Upon booting into the system I was still running fish but zsh appeared to be installed and have config in place so I tried chsh and a reboot on my login account.

Upon logging back in echo "$SHELL" will return /usr/bin/zsh but the active shell is very clearly still fish

To be honest I kinda gave up and decided to roll with fish yesterday but I would like to try to understand what might have happened...

I was very clear not to get confused between my own account and sudo - in fact I set both to zsh and rebooted again for good measure with no change to the actual shell presented (still fish) for either but with both reporting /usr/zsh or /usr/bin/zsh

if i try to run source ~/.zshrc then I get errors about assignment using = in fish, I should use SET HISTFILE instead

UPDATE: changed title to reflect new understanding, I have also removed zsh, all config and re-installed

• I can run zsh manually and it seems to work fine
• i am launching the shell from konsole via the gui

I am now thinking the call to launch konsole is probably binding a particular shell - any tips where to look would be appreciated

Answer 1

Thank you all for your help in working through this.

It turned out to be a setting binding the shell to the Konsole terminal. There is a command line flag to pass this in when launching.

For the garuda KDE based desktop you can access this setting under settings->configure konsole-> edit profile from the konsole gui menus`

Answer 2

Right clicking in the fish terminal then under configure profile under command changing it to /usr/bin/zsh solve my problem. It was stuck with /usr/bin/fish