Neither does for me. $SHELL is set by /etc/password and/or "chsh", if awesome is setting it that way it is most probablu an rc.lua issue.
Which version of awesome are you running? Could you try running awesone with its default config file and see if it works? Cheers. Musee U <[email protected]> wrote: >On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun ><[email protected]>wrote: > >> Why does awesome set the $SHELL environment to /usr/bin/awesome? >> xterm uses this to tell which shell to run as default command, >> and as long as I remember, it has given the user a straight forward >> way to choose his shell for use with X11. >> With awesome, simply spawning xterm from a menu or key shortcut >> obviously won't work. >> >> I am mainly curious about why. The obvious solution is to hardcode >> a specific shell in the awesome config. Annoying coupling, but >workable >> :-) >> >> >> -- >> :-- Hans Georg >> > >Awesome doesn't set $SHELL to /usr/bin/awesome for me.... x.x; -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
