#6 Non bash shells may not work

[Anonymous]

I was running the fish shell as my default shell. The R process would not start correctly under Gedit. Changed the default back to bash and it worked great. Is there an argument to vte.terminal that determines the shell?

[Dan Dediu]

Hi,

well, I'm using "fork_command()" to start the user's default shell (http://library.gnome.org/devel/vte/unstable/VteTerminal.html#vte-terminal-fork-command) and I must say that your case did not cross my mind (mea culpa).
Now, I see three solutions:
1. force to start "sh" or "bash" for instance (fork_command("sh")) instead of the default shell
2. add an option in the plug-in's preferences where users with "non-standard" shells can specify sh or bash
3. start R directly (without a subtending shell) but I don't really like this as sometimes it might be useful to get down there and do some stuff in between two R sessions.

What do you think?
Best,
Dan