Making Konsole to be login shell by default

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Konsole doesn’t provide convenience for running login shell, because developers don’t like the idea of running login shell in a terminal emulator.

Of course, users still can run login shell in Konsole if they really need to. Edit the profile in use and modify its command to the form of starting a login shell explicitly, such as "bash -l" and "zsh -l".

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lolmaus - Andrey Mikhaylov

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

lolmaus - Andrey Mikhaylov over 1 year

I don't know why there are "login" and "non-login" shells in the first place, and i'm not very eager to know.

The fact is that the RVM and NVM software that i use frequently require login shells, and Konsole starts a non-login shell.

This forces me to submit a bash -l command every time i start a Konsole.

How do i make Konsole start in login shell mode by default?
- Radu Rădeanu almost 10 years
  
  See askubuntu.com/questions/132276/…
- lolmaus - Andrey Mikhaylov almost 10 years
  
  @RaduRădeanu, well, your link suggest to enable login shell in Gnome Shell options. Unfortunately, Konsole does not have such an option.
Steven Shaw about 9 years

Thanks for the solution! I was surprised that my .zprofile wasn't being run in Konsole. I wonder whether it's true that "developers don't like the idea of running login shell in a terminal emulator"?
bain about 9 years

Probably because the login shell is supposed to be the one that is run when you login, not every time you open a new terminal. Difference between Login Shell and Non-Login Shell?
Alexey about 3 years

yea, kde Konsole - right click -> Edit Current Profile -> General -> Command : /bin/bash -l
Rγσ ξηg Lιαη Ημ about 3 years

@Alexey thanks, it works