RVM, Zsh and Konsole

Today I set up RVM with Zsh (Z shell) with Konsole (the KDE equivalent to gnome-terminal).

The RVM Konsole example shows it with bash, setting the “Command” field to “/bin/bash –login”. The line for Zsh is nearly the same: “/usr/bin/zsh –login”.

If you don’t have this, you’ll get the error:

% which ruby
/usr/bin/ruby
% rvm use 2.0

RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work.

You need to change your terminal emulator preferences to allow login shell.
Sometimes it is required to use `/bin/bash --login` as the command.
Please visit https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal/ for an example.

Note that you’ll need to have RVM as the first component in the PATH (“echo $PATH”).

With the “Command” field set to “/usr/bin/zsh –login” (that’s “dash dash login”), when you start a new terminal you should get:

% which ruby
/home/jpace/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p551/bin/ruby
% rvm use 2.0
Using /home/jpace/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p598
% which ruby
/home/jpace/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p598/bin/ruby

Silencing Konsole Notification

Applications in KDE can send notifications, which result in popups on the task bar:

Highly annoying this is. The culprit is that control-shift-A is the shortcut to enabling this behavior, as is shown via “Konsole -> View -> Monitor for Activity”:

It’s fortunate that this is easy to disable. Right click on “Monitor for Activity -> Configure Shortcut”, then click on “Ctrl+Shift+A”, which will then display “Input”. Click on the left arrow graphic:

That should result in it showing “None”, which means that there will no longer be a shortcut. You might want to go back to “Konsole > View” and make sure that “Monitor for Activity” is not checked.

I seem to do this every time I set up KDE, so perhaps this will help others.