New iTerm2 version 3.3.1 comes with a complete new and good looking features.
I just shared a tweet about how my terminal looks and immediately start receiving some questions about how to get there.
ok, so let's start!
Getting start
Disclaimer: if you have installed iTerm 3.3.1, zsh, oh-my-zsh and spaceship_prompt jump to configuration section
iTerm2
To start, we need to download and install iTerm.
Follow the steps as a normal application.
ZSH
Zsh is a shell designed for interactive use, although it is also a powerful scripting language
This is a may pain full step, and this would change depending on your configuration. So the best I can do is share the most complete guide that I found to do it - Installing zsh
Oh-my-zsh
Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration
Use the official documentations of Oh-my-zsh to install it - Installing oh-my-zsh
You can get deeper in oh-my-zsh and their configuration, but this is not the scope of this post. So the most important you need to understand about it is his entry configuration file. ~/.zshrc here you can control themes and plugins.
spaceship-prompt
Spaceship is a minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt
Follow the installation options in spaceship-prompt project - spaceship-prompt installation
Configuration
Ok so now our iTerm should be looking nice. But we can add some configuration to get here:
tabs in left panel
To change the tabs to be located at left, just go to iTerm > Preferences > Appearance there, in General you will see Tab bar location, set that to Left
You also can customize the icon and session title, to do that, simple go to iTerm > Preferences > Profiles, General and in Basics section going to see the Icon and Title inputs.
status bar
This is a new super cool ui improvement of iTerm, to enabled it go to iTerm > Preferences > Profiles then in the left sub sections go to Session. There at the bottom, you will find the enabled check and the configuration link, where you can customize which components put on your bar. It's simple just drag and drop the components.
To change the location of the bar, just go to iTerm > Preferences > Appearance, there in General you will see Status bar location, set that to Bottom
customize spaceship-prompt
Well this is like a bonus, in my case I wanted that the git branch indicator only shows in status bar, so I had to disable it in spaceship-prompt. To do that, go to you zsh config file(~/.zshrc in normal case) and add this config flag
SPACESHIP_GIT_BRANCH_SHOW="false"
Save the changes and restart iTerm
Thanks for read! If have any questions or comments leave bellow 🙂
Pura vida 🇨🇷✌🏼
Top comments (3)
Pura vida indeed!
So, totally unrelated to the majority of this post, but I'm moving to Costa Rica in a month and am super excited. Ready to hear a lot more "pura vidas" in my near future.
It's super cool to find people in the community that comes to Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Definitely you going to hear a lot of "pura vida"!
Feel free to DM me any question about the country and/or places to know :)
email: me@carcruzcast.com
twitter: @carcruzcast
Thank you so much, Carlos!
I'm headed to Puerto Viejo - not sure if you're familiar with it. My wife is a vet and is going to try and work at the Jaguar rescue center there.
Thanks for the contact info! I may be hitting you up soon. :-)