How to change default conda environment in Anaconda Prompt?

Question

I have Anaconda installed in my machine with two environments one is base(default) and other is vision.

Whenever I open Anaconda Prompt, it opens in the base environment and I have to change the environment manually using

$ activate vision

So I'm looking for a way to open Anaconda Prompt in my vision environment by default.

Is it possible to do so?

OS: Windows10
Anaconda: 4.5.11

P.S: I have already gone through the similar question asked here. Accepted answer doesn't provide a solution here as my both python versions are 3.6.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28436769/how-to-change-default-anaconda-python-environment — Vincent Rodomista, Oct 04 '18 at 12:41
@VincentRodomista I have already linked that and mentioned accepted answer doesn't provide solution in my case. — Sociopath, Oct 04 '18 at 12:42
@AkshayNevrekar Did you see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40777297/2449192 It looks like it will answer your case... — darthbith, Oct 04 '18 at 14:52

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 08 '20 at 19:32

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Instead of messing with the path and stuff in my .bashrc file, I simply appended the line:

conda activate sdesign

My environment name is sdesign. So it simply activates the environment every time I open a new terminal. Hope that helps.

edited Jan 08 '20 at 19:32

Jovial Joe Jayarson

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answered Mar 21 '19 at 01:23

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Where to add line `conda activate sdesign` ? – Sociopath Mar 21 '19 at 03:57
I added the line in ".bashrc". So your terminal just runs that command every time you open a terminal. Make sure to replace 'sdesign' with the environment you want to be "default". – Dustin K Mar 22 '19 at 16:00
This is a question for Windows 10, and I suppose `.bashrc` is usually used in Linux or Mac. – Niko Föhr Nov 10 '20 at 10:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 07 '23 at 14:40

If you want to start anaconda-navigator with a particular environment [e.g MyEnv ] then For Linux OS I know a method. Maybe, it will be beneficial for someone. So, I'm sharing it.

First, completely close anaconda-navigator and the edit the file
Open ~/.anaconda/navigator/anaconda-navigator.ini.

change

default_env = '/home/user/anaconda3'

to

default_env = '/home/user/anaconda3/envs/MyEnv'

Note: Here /home/{user will be different for everyone}/anaconda ... like that.

You can also edit another options like

dataspell_path = 
pycharm_ce_path = 
pycharm_pro_path = 
vscode_path = /usr/share/code

and so on.

For windows there will be a file maybe in C:/User/AppData/local/anacond/anaconda-navigator.ini like that. Edit that like the solution. Surely that will also work.

How to change default conda environment in Anaconda Prompt?

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