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Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh


Hi!

I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh.

Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding "exec zsh -l" to .bashrc

Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as "interactive login shell",
it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash

If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works.

But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because
bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe
is called by "bash -l".

So, is there a way to change shell?

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