Oh my posh on all windows terminals (vs code integrated terminal too!!)

Vipul Dessai — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 05:00:34 +0000

Set Permission in Windows Powershell

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

also open the VS code and open the terminal and use the same command to set policy in the VS code terminal

Install the 'oh my posh'

by either visiting this or use the below command.

winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget

Install fonts

oh-my-posh font install meslo

'meslo' worked well for all themes i tested, if the theme text is breaking try using other font

Edit the terminal configs

Modify the settings.json of the terminal

open the terminal as an admin user
press CTRL + SHIFT + ,
this will open or prompt to select your favorite editor for the 'settings.json'

"profiles": 
    {
        "defaults": {
            "font":
            {
                "face": "MesloLGM Nerd Font"
            }
        }
    ...

save it

Modify the settings of VS code integrated terminal

go to File -> Preferences -> Settings
search for @feature:terminal font
add the font 'MesloLGM Nerd Font'
save it (CTRL + S)

Install the theme - [official documentation]

Create a profile file

Create a new profile file manually

create a file
rename it to Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1
move it to C:\Users\<user-name>\OneDrive\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

Automatically create a profile file

open the terminal
create a new profile by running the following command

New-Item -Path $PROFILE -Type File -Force

this will create a file at C:\Users\<user-name>\OneDrive\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

Add the content to the profile file

for example I'll use '1_shell' theme
add the below line to the newly created profile file

oh-my-posh init pwsh --config 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/1_shell.omp.json' | Invoke-Expression

replace 1_shell.omp.json with the omp.json of the desired theme name
- theme name can be found here
restart the terminal

Note: if no --config flag is provided then the default theme will be used

That's it, now you are a 10X developer 😝

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