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Quick Setup of Oh My ZSH! terminal on Ubuntu

Gift Egwuenu on April 27, 2018

Tired of the good ol' boring looking terminal? Do you want to try something different and funky then you should definitely try Oh-my-zsh! As develo...
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Dimitri Acosta

If you're using agnoster as a theme then you should install one of the patched fonts from Vim-Powerline for special characters.

Also, if you don't want to see your username at the begining of the prompt (as I would recommend) then you'll have to add this to your ~/.zshrc file

...
DEFAULT_USER="your_username"
prompt_context(){}
...

This will hide the user@hostname info

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Gift Egwuenu

Thanks for the tip this is helpful.

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Cool

Hey I have a question as of now I had change the theme on zshrc file but however the theme on my command line is still the same. But Looking at my terminal in VS CODE it did however Change.

I was wondering to change the default theme?

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ItsASine (Kayla)

I feel like I never properly utilize oh-my-zsh.

It's prettier than Terminal! But I never remember to use the autocompletes, including the add-on stuff like git and docker that I enabled. I just use it as a reskinnedTerminal.

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Vincent Schoener

Take a loot to Prezto, oh-my-zsh is slower because it uses zsh wrapper instead of native code.
(Maybe things have changed since the time I switched for prezto)

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Stephen Chiang

Cool, another zsh user! I recently posted about article as well on it: bling-ified terminal

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Gift Egwuenu

Yay, it's super cool!

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daniels

I use zsh but with Prezto.

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Cleiton

I use omz with powerlevel9k in my Tilix Terminal and together they are awesome.