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Oh My Zsh + PowerLevel10k = 😎 terminal

abdfn on December 23, 2020

Hi there, The developers always use the terminal, but it is boring and has no colors or shapes. Today we will transform our terminals into a wonder...

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Ole-Martin Bratteng • Feb 19 '21

I can recommend exa as a replacement for colorls
the.exa.website/

Syndelis • Oct 28 '21

I myself recommend lsd (lsDeluxe) as the replacement
github.com/Peltoche/lsd

abdfn • Nov 19 '21

👌

abdfn • Feb 19 '21 • Edited

WOW, It's good, I'll try it 👍, can you tell me what is the font on the image ?

Ole-Martin Bratteng • Feb 22 '21

It's FiraCode with NerdFont patches

abdfn • Feb 22 '21 • Edited

Nice, I tried exa and it's very powerful

Ole-Martin Bratteng • Feb 23 '21

I've got this in my .zshrc file

if [ -x "$(command -v exa)" ]; then
    alias ls="exa"
    alias la="exa --long --all --group"
fi

abdfn • Feb 23 '21

This is better

Ole-Martin Bratteng • Feb 23 '21

Yeah, I wrap all my aliases in if clauses, that way I can share my dotfiles across systems, and not worry if e.g. exa isn't installed on that particular machine, I still have the original ls

Mahamat Ali Youssouf • Oct 25 '24

Thank you so much

Dang Nguyen • Dec 26 '24

Hi,
I think 'exa' is not working anymore (exa has been disabled because it is not maintained upstream! It was disabled on 2024-01-24.")
I gotta use 'eza' as an alternative.

abdfn • Jan 3

Thank you for your note 🤝

Yahya • Feb 14 '21

Hello thanks for sharing I have an issue with it some icons is not showing what could make this issue

abdfn • Feb 14 '21

Hi, the problem is from the font, try Hack nerd or MesloLGS NF fonts

Yahya • Feb 14 '21 • Edited

thanks for reply I have used both and the issues till there and I even downloaded the 4 fonts from their GitHub repo and install them and I can't see them

abdfn • Feb 15 '21 • Edited

What's your system ?
And which terminal do you use ?

Yahya • Feb 15 '21

Mac os big sur i use the normal terminal and I have installed iterm2 and issue still with icons is there too :)

abdfn • Feb 15 '21 • Edited

Ok, go to iTerm preferences, 👉 profiles 👉 general and paste /bin/zsh.
after this restart iTerm2.

Make sure your font in preferences 👉 profiles 👉 text is MesloLGS NF.

Go to the terminal and type

source ~/.zshrc

and configure your design

Yahya • Feb 15 '21

Thanks Alot it fixed the issue much appreciated
:)

abdfn • Feb 16 '21 • Edited

Anytime bro 🤝

abdfn • Nov 15 '22

🤝

WhyStart • Jun 26 '21

How are your screenshots generated?

abdfn • Jun 27 '21

in Windows, press Alt+Print Screen

in MacOS

Jan Winkler • Jan 21 '23 • Edited

also in win, you can create a selection by pressing "win + shift + S"

abdfn • Jan 21 '23

🤝

WhyStart • Jun 28 '21

thanks

Mudit Kumar • Jun 29 '21 • Edited

Shift+CTRL+Command+4 is a better way to snap selected area..and automatically copy to clipboard

abdfn • Jun 30 '21

👌

Raphael Azeredo • Feb 4

Hello everyone,

I would like to present my new open source project, p10k-theme-generator. This web-based tool simplifies creating custom themes for Powerlevel10k by providing a set of color configurations as a starting point. Although it currently focuses on color options, there are many additional customization possibilities within Powerlevel10k to explore.

If you have ideas for new features, improvements to the current configurations, or usability enhancements, your input is welcome to help make this tool even more robust and useful for the community.

You can check out the project and contribute on GitHub:
p10k-theme-generator

Feel free to fork the repository, submit pull requests, or share your thoughts here. Let’s collaborate to enhance the Powerlevel10k experience for all users.

I look forward to your contributions and ideas.

Viet NT • May 15 '21

It's nice, thank you!

abdfn • May 15 '21

glad to help

Saad Bakhiyi • Jan 9 '22

Thank you a lot ths is the first time I can do this I'm so happy thank for you help

abdfn • Jan 9 '22

❤ glad for help you

Ned Marafawi • Oct 17 '21

Thank you for the exa ls. Really helpful! 😊

Gunesh Shanbhag • Oct 25 '21

@ombratteng @abdfn
I am not able to get exa working with alias ls.
I ahve added the if stmt you had provided but still ls doesnt print exa's style.
I am on macos big sur with iterm.

abdfn • Nov 3 '21

execute this command

source ~/.zshrc

cbouttes • Aug 20 '22

Salut, j'ai eu un problème parce que oh mon zsh montre un caractère bizarre '?' sur mon terminal sous Ubuntu WSL2.
Je recommande le tutoriel Youtube suivant "HOW TO install powerlevel10k for zsh/oh-my-zsh WITH Nerd Fonts inside WSL" qui montre comment installer "Meslo Nerd Font" sur Windows ce qui résout le problème.