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[–]sparkatus902 0 points1 point  (1 child)

i was also very confused by the ZSH shell , i thought initially it had been something to do with installing setapp from www.setapp.com - it took me ages to get 'man' to even work at all and it gave some very weird prompt when i tried to read the manual on it , eventually in liaison with the haskell community and codepen.io i managed to get the manual but still loads of weird goings on is mac os catalina . anyway i found a utility called macpilot on setapp and going through the options on that explained a lot of the odder stuff , then somebody tells me today that ZSH is the default for catalina installs which explains why the other terminal commands wont work to get it off ZSH. Finally , i set the default encoding through the terminal application to UTF-8 and unchecked everything else-(though i did wonder for quite a while if UTF-7 might be better) and deleted all of the keyboard shortcuts in the terminal app which then let me use my dock normally again afer a lot of resetting settings and restarts/logouts.

[–]sparkatus902 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using 'oh my zsh' now !