User list missing in Gnome after messing about with shell

ycooreman Well this is because the shell is loaded when the terminal is open. Did you try to launch another terminal instance to see if fish was loaded instead of bash ?

I suspect there might be a slight error in the documentation here. For me, the fish binary is located at /usr/bin/fish, while some other shells (like bash) are located at /bin/<shell>. Even the doc itself seems to acknowledge (a bit further down in the article) the path where I found fish:

For Fish: echo "/usr/bin/fish" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells

Maybe the doc should be updated for fish?

Does anyone have FISH working as their default shell in Budgie?

I followed the instructions from the Documentation, as well as the above thread, but no matter what, when I login and use the Terminal, I'm back in BASH instead.

What am I missing?

I have als interactive shell only.
From Arch wiki "Setting fish as interactive shell only

Not setting fish as system wide or user default allows the current Bash scripts to run on startup. It ensures the current user's environment variables are unchanged and are exported to fish which then runs as a Bash child. Below are several ways of running fish in interactive mode without setting it as the default shell. "

Modify .bashrc to drop into fish

"Keep the default shell as Bash and simply add the line exec fish to the appropriate Bash#Configuration files, such as .bashrc. This will allow Bash to properly source /etc/profile and all files in /etc/profile.d. Because fish replaces the Bash process, exiting fish will also exit the terminal. Compared to the following options, this is the most universal solution, since it works both on a local machine and on a SSH server"

add line in home file .bashrc

exec fish

Saijin_Naib To add on to what @kuki said, I know first hand how much of a fool's errand it is to try to set fish as the default shell on a server (running Ubuntu). Because of admins configuring the various scripts that run on a terminal startup and the user accounts being for networks instead of on the specific machine, it was not worthwhile to try and use chsh.

However, I can confirm that, locally, I have no problem configuring fish as the default shell on my own machine running Solus Budgie. Have you looked at my warning that the doc might not point to the correct path for the fish executable? Because otherwise I don't know what might be the problem.

P.S. I also assume you logged out and logged back in. Because from what I remember, changing shell requires you to log out and back in to take effect.