What have you done to set your desired shell?
You should be able to goto System Preferences -> Users & Groups, then right
click on the user and select "Advanced Options" ... Assuming that's how you set
your shell, it should just work...
--Jeremy
On Aug 10, 2012, at 07:26, Michael Goldweber <mik...@cs.xu.edu> wrote:
> Issue: XQuartz only launches bash and not tcsh.
>
> Environment:
> Brand spanking new retina-15" laptop running a fresh install of Mountain Lion.
> XQuartz 2.7.2
> desired shell: tcsh
>
> What I've experienced: When running Terminal, tcsh is correctly launched.
> XQuartz launches (i.e. XTerm) bash.
>
> So, evidently the login shell that launches X11 is not being run - the script
> that looks at what ${SHELL} is set to.
>
> I have also created a file
> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
>
> the contents of this file is:
> ---
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
>
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
> <key>SHELL</key>
> <string>/bin/tcsh</string>
> </dict>
> </plist>
> ---
>
> So, evidently, this is not being read either.
>
> Finally, when I manually launch X11 (XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11), things
> work correctly - xterm comes up with tcsh as my shell.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> mike goldweber
>
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