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Making ZSH the default shell on Ubuntu 20.04

Emanuel
February 25, 2021Software engineer at makandra GmbH

ZSH is an alternative command line shell that includes some features like spelling correction, cd automation, better theme, and plugin support. You can replace Bash with ZSH like following:

sudo apt-get install zsh
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Setting ZSH as default login shell

sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh $(whoami)

Opening a new terminal window will show you a dialog where you can configure your initial ZSH config (Option 2 recommended).

Afterwards you can install the plugin manager Oh-My-ZSH Show archive.org snapshot and select a proper theme Show archive.org snapshot .

Further configurations:

Posted by Emanuel to makandra dev (2021-02-25 15:10)