Terminal bling

Followup on my previous entry related to my wallpaper. I just wanted my terminal to look nice since I spend quite some time on it. I use zsh by the way, but there are similar instructions for bash as well.

I’ll just document the steps I followed (2 alternatives)

powerline-shell

Install powerline-shell (more configuration options in the github repo):

sudo pip install powerline-shell

Add these lines to .zshrc:

function powerline_precmd() {
    PS1="$(powerline-shell --shell zsh $?)"
}

function install_powerline_precmd() {
  for s in "${precmd_functions[@]}"; do
    if [ "$s" = "powerline_precmd" ]; then
      return
    fi
  done
  precmd_functions+=(powerline_precmd)
}

if [ "$TERM" != "linux" ]; then
    install_powerline_precmd
fi

ohmyzsh

Install ohmyzsh:

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Replace the theme in line

ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell" 

by one of the themes in this list, I chose agnoster.

Color scheme (doesn’t work completely with powerline-shell)

Install pywal:

sudo pip install pywal

Then run

wal -i "/path/to/img.jpg"

Which I pointed to my pacwall generated wallpaper, you should see a change in color scheme now. This is my result:

Finally make the color scheme part of the .zshrc and persist between reboots (by modifying .xinitrc) (based on these instructions), here are my .zshrc additions:

(cat ~/.cache/wal/sequences &)
neofetch

And my .xinitrc addition:

wal -R

Day 14 of #100DaysToOffload