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Posh terminals!

Posh terminals?

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First thing you may notice, is that it isn't your regular boring terminal!

So what is this?

This is oh-my-posh, an open sourced project that basically makes your terminals posh. The best part, is that the community can create new fonts, new looks and styles. It uses NerdFonts, in which you can create one, and you can also create new designs at Oh-my-posh.

Some warnings!

Unfortunately, I feel that the documentation is lacking quite a bit. So I had to do some digging to get to this stage. But here are some things you would really want to know

  • If you are a windows user, install oh-my-posh for powershell. Command prompt is outdated and has really confusing steps to install, and I didn't even manage to install it in the end
  • I felt that installing oh-my-posh from microsoft store was the easiest (lmao, I'm lazy). I don't really know how to install oh-my-posh in other ways

I would probably help rewrite the docs for all the stuff in the not so far future.

Links!

For the fixes, and officials

Oh-My-Posh Official
Nerd Fonts Official
Changing fonts fix
Running scripts in Powershell
^ for this link, go to the Running Scripts in Powershell section
Inspirationnn

Thanks everyone! (for reading)

Let's see how you think of this! If you have any problems, feel free to comment! Ayo ๐Ÿคจ !

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Richard Guay โ€ข

I've used Posh and Starship. I like Posh more, but that is my preference!

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Abhishek Keshri โ€ข

I feel configuration is much simpler in oh-my-posh, here's my posh config Posh2k, have started a starship one, will share when I finish

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Wj โ€ข

haha nice plug

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Jan De Dobbeleer โ€ข

Alright! ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿป

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Chris Dawkins โ€ข

Starship is another great cross-platform prompt.

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Wj โ€ข

alright, thanks for the info!

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Moustafa Mahmoud โ€ข

cool

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Jan De Dobbeleer โ€ข

oh-my-posh has more capabilities though ;-)

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Abhishek Keshri โ€ข

nice, I'll take credit for introducing you to oh-my-posh :p

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