Why Do You Need to Source. Zshrc for Every New Shell in iTerm?
I've Used Iterm2 with Zsh Everyday for the Past 3 Year's, but I Got a New Computer and Had to Set It up Again. the Problem Is That When I Run ~/. Zshrc It...
I've used Iterm2 with zsh everyday for the past 3 years, but I got a new computer and had to set it up again. The problem is that when I run ~/.zshrc it works fine, but I have to do it on every new terminal window I open. Not a good experience.
I noticed that I don't have any bashrc, bash_profile, or profile (dot)files on my new machine.
Here's the code in ~/.zshrc:
export ZSH=/Users/healy/.oh-my-zsh
plugins=(
git
)
ZSH_THEME="agnoster"
source ~/.zsh/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh
DEFAULT_USER=healy
Again, it works perfectly (and as expected), but only after I run the source command, and that shouldn't be the case.
6 Answers
Make sure your export/source are added after the plugins in your zshrc, as stated in this post: oh-my-zsh config file not loading
On starting a new shell just run the command source ~/.zshrc by configuring in the
Preferences -> Profiles -> Select Default Profile(default profile will be starred) -> General -> Command -> Select Login Shell -> Send text at start:
Enter the value source ~/.zshrc.
You may add source ~/.zshrc; clear in case you need to clear the screen contents after executing the command.
I had the same issue and changing the Shells Open with option fixed this for me.
To get here:
- Open Preferences for Terminal
- Select the General Tab
- Change Sells open with from
Default login shellto Command (complete path) with the/bin/zshin the input box.
Screeshot:
In my case, oh-my-zsh is not loaded because the line was comment out.
# IT'S WRONG! NEED TO UNCOMMENT
# export ZSH=/Users/$(whoami)/.oh-my-zsh
Though this question is not due to the same "comment out" obviously, I came to a conclusion that, if you need to source ~/.zshrc every time opening a shell instance, there should be some issue with your .zshrc,
and check oh-my-zsh and antigen(maybe) work fine.
On 11.2.1 with Terminal 2.11, assuming you have already created .zshrc in your home directory, launch Terminal and select Terminal >> Preferences >> Profiles >> Shell
Under "Startup" check "Run command:" and input source ~/.zshrc
for me,It works like this. Profiles 》Open Profiles 》Select “Edit Profiles” 》Profiles 》General and put "source ~/.zsh" into Send text at start textfield.
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