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[Question] Which shell prompt do you use and why? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. I've been using powerlevel10k for a long time, but a few days ago, I decided I wanted to customize it a bit. I opened the .p10k.zsh file, and I was shocked. It's really massive, with TONS of options. I've been digging through for a few hours already, and it's absolutely amazing how much you can customize it without actually programming anything. I was wondering what other people are using. So my questions are:

Do you customize your shell prompt?
If yes, do you use some framework or pre-made theme, or do you just configure it the vanilla way in your bashrc/zshrc/...
How is your experiences with it so far?
Share screenshot of your prompts, please (Sadly, my prompt is currently half done, so I can't really share it)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fish + OMF.... Work flawlessly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use bash-it and set it to powerline theme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using guake

I like that it's just the F12 key away then F11 to expand to full window. Supports multiple tabs.

Anyone using guake?

[–] thenextguy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you misunderstood the question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Completely did! Thanks for being kind.

My shell prompt is stock and gets really long sometimes

I'm about to install Debian and try some other desktop environments... And maybe I'll play with my shell prompt later.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I use budspencer theme on fish. https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/blob/master/docs/Themes.md#budspencer-theme It looks cool and yellow, which I like. I prints the path on the far right and parent folders are printed only with initial letter, so it doesn't take 2 lines in the shell and it ends up pretty short. It also has git integration and some budspencer exclusive commands to perform some cools actions, I don't care about and I have never used. Also, I like that command errors are displayed as ✔ or ✘ on the next prompt. It also prints the time the last command has been running. I use vi keybidings, so prompt color changes when I change the mode feel cool. I would also like to have the execution time for every command, but I have another theme for that I don't remember the name of on my work machine.

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