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On a new setup, tmux is using bash instead of my default (zsh).

How can I force it to use zsh?

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figured it out. Can set the following in tmux config: set -g default-command /bin/zsh set -g default-shell /bin/zsh – re5et Mar 6 '11 at 5:33
Thank you for posting the solution. This helped me. – Amjith Aug 2 '11 at 4:37
FWIW, you don't need to set default-command if you've set default-shell. – Nicholas Riley Feb 29 '12 at 20:03

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set-option -g default-shell /bin/zsh

in ~/.tmux.conf or /etc/tmux.conf. Works on Fedora.

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If this doesn't work for you then make sure you've restart tmux. Seems obvious but took me a good hour to figure out! – Andy Smith Sep 20 '12 at 20:55
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BTW: Restarting tmux means killall tmux; tmux. Took me quite a while to figure out. – js-coder Dec 21 '12 at 14:48
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First ensure your default shell is set properly to zsh via running this in your command line:

chsh -s $(`which zsh`) $USER

Placing the folloowing in your ~/.tmux.conf is a more robust option for any shell.

set-option -g default-shell $SHELL
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Drop this line in the bottom of your ~/.tmux.conf

set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh"

After you add that, kill and restart your tmux server and all should work.

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Er, is there any indication that re5et (the OP) is on a Mac, or has that wrapper program installed? – Chris Johnsen Feb 1 '12 at 7:13
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Use chsh(1):

chsh -s /bin/zsh $USER
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i already had this set, but tmux was ignoring it. – re5et Mar 6 '11 at 5:33

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