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Ali Spittel on June 11, 2019

Mathias Falci • Jun 11 '19

just kidding 😂

Florian Rand • Jun 11 '19

Best terminal of all times 😂

Don Alfons Nisnoni • Aug 14 '19

Simply legend terminal 😄😂

Tom VanAntwerp • Jun 11 '19

Dave Fulton • Jun 11 '19

First: love it. Now, 2 questions. How do you format that prompt? Multi-level and folder icon looks really slick. Secondly, is the date/time always there or is that part of neofetch? If it's always there I'd love to know how you set that up.

Thanks!

Tom VanAntwerp • Jun 11 '19

Using Powerlevel9k for that. Here's a gist of my settings for it.

Dave Fulton • Jun 11 '19

Awesome, much appreciated! However, this is the first I'm hearing about Powerlevel9k and a cursory look at it tells me it may be a rabbit hole that never actually ends. So... thanks?

Don Alfons Nisnoni • Aug 14 '19

That very nice..!! 😍😍

Mr-blanc • Jun 11 '19

What command shows that?

Stephanie Handsteiner • Jun 11 '19

neofetch.

If you're on Mac with Homebrew installed just do brew install neofetch

Dominic Shelton • Jun 12 '19

or port install neofetch

Chris James • Jun 11 '19

Here's mine

David Wickes • Jun 11 '19

Chris - I love your colorscheme. I've implemented it in my terminal emulator too!

David Wickes • Jun 12 '19

How did you choose the font, by the way?

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 11 '19

Almost the same with Ali!

Using:

Hyper 3 as terminal app
tmux to create multiple sessions and split panes
Fish with Oh-My-Fish framework as default shell (theme is called Spacefish)
exa as replacement for ls
bat as replacement for cat (aliased here, though)
...and many more nice things

Florian Rand • Jun 11 '19

Lovely, I'm seeing a lot of fellow fishes

Dan • Jun 11 '19

I’m curious- why do you like Hyper 3? (I’ve never tried it)

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 12 '19

Because there is no iTerm for Windows. With Hyper I can replicate this exactly same terminal experience on all platforms.

Well, Windows has a bit different font rendering but otherwise I can just hop between computers and stay productive.

The other terminal I'm using sometimes is the one built into VS Code which is another cross-platform dream.

Dan • Jun 12 '19

Ahh I see I see.
I may try it but I wonder if it’s a bit of a hog with electron. I like that you can style it with css

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 12 '19

It's not the fastest terminal emulator out there but definitely faster than Hyper 1 & 2. Impressive how much performance improvements ZEIT has been able to put into their latest release. Definitely shows that Electron apps do not need to be resource hogs.

Cameren Dolecheck • Jun 29 '19

Fish is great. I'm always surprised it is not more popular.

Niko Heikkilä • Jun 30 '19

I'd guess in the past it has been too exotic a choice for daily usage as you would have to chain commands like mkdir newdir; and cd newdir instead of basic &&. Now the game has changed, though, so let's keep on praising it. 🎉

Chandra Dasari • Jun 11 '19

Its a mix of Wes Bos's setup and the Dracula theme

Ali Spittel • Jun 11 '19

You can read all about it here:

My Terminal Setup: iTerm2 + Zsh 🔥

Ali Spittel ・ 4 min read

#terminal #shell #productivity #beginners

Erendira Garcia • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

I loved your setup so I implemented it

kevin • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

hyper
hyper-snazzy
hyper-opacity
hyperminimal

Zizaco • Jun 12 '19

What is this l command that show icons?

kevin • Jun 12 '19 • Edited

ls aliased as l in shell config file. Icons and colors can be achieved with colorls github.com/athityakumar/colorls

Zizaco • Jun 18 '19

Thanks !

I've found another way to do so: github.com/Peltoche/lsd + alias ls=lsd.

kevin • Jun 18 '19 • Edited

wow, thanks for sharing this. I've recently started setting up wsl2 on different distro, will try this lsd instead, got me at rust 😄. Btw, your terminal looks great, may I know it's details?

Edit: I have tried lsd, confirm that's it's amazingly fast, no hiccups as observed with colorls. I'll have to see its performance together with spaceship prompt and other zsh plugin, my original setup in wsl1.

Meru Patel • Jun 11 '19

My Gnome-terminal with bash and dracula theme

Some more show-off :-p

Itachi Uchiha • Jun 11 '19

How can I have my own bash theme like your Dracula :)

Meru Patel • Jun 11 '19

Gogh is a bash script that provides lots of themes including Dracula. Have fun.

Itachi Uchiha • Jun 11 '19

Thank youu :)

Itachi Uchiha • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

I use arch btw!

Bob McCann • Jun 17 '19 • Edited

Are you part of OperationCode.org or does the opcode prompt mean something different to you?

Itachi Uchiha • Jun 18 '19

Hi, actually I didn't know OperationCode.org before.

My opcode username is related to CPU;

An opcode is the first byte of an instruction in machine language which tells the hardware what operation needs to be performed with this instruction. Every processor/controller has its own set of opcodes defined in its architecture. An opcode is followed by data like address, values, etc if needed.

Dian Fay • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

Arch, termite, zsh, my own colors

oh, and here's bonsai.sh.

sanctioned_parts • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

I like those colors. And the bonsai tree.

(konsole, zsh + prezto, tmux. colorschemes and dotfiles are somewhat of a mess, so not published anywhere yet)

Eric Davidson • Jun 11 '19

That looks so cool!

tiff • Jun 11 '19

Tiny Care Terminal

Patrick Tumbucon • Jun 11 '19

Here's mine:

Ken Flake • Jun 11 '19

This looks so sick. May I know how you were able to do this? 😊

Patrick Tumbucon • Jun 13 '19

Wallpaper: Here (The wallpaper I wal'd for the color scheme)
WM: GNOME
Terminal: urxvt
Font: Roboto Mono (I think)
Process Manager: htop
Audio Visualizer: cava

Ken Flake • Jun 15 '19

Thank you very much for this. I don't really understand all of the jargon like wal as I'm new in experimenting in the Terminal. I want to learn what is the advantage of Oh My Zsh than the normal bash, and their differences.

Richard Bagshaw • Jun 11 '19

Diego Ulloa • May 16 '20

What did you use?

Eric Davidson • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

Here's mine with a command line Pomodoro timer, I just need to add more color to my text.

David Wickes • Jun 11 '19

Here it is - a DEC VT100

Oh, you meant my terminal emulator... my bad!😉🤣

(this is why nobody invites me to parties)

Kevin Marciniak • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

Hyper
plugins: [
"hyper-night-owl",
"hyper-opacity",
"hyper-tabs-enhanced",
"hyper-sync-settings",
"hyperalfred",
"hyperterm-tabs"
]

ZSH_THEME="spaceship"
Oh My ZSH
ColorLS
zsh-syntax-highlighting

Vicente G. Reyes • Jun 11 '19

Here's mine. I don't know wth happened to this. All I remember is, I was trying to install rails, the next thing I see, is this.

LokiDev • Jul 6 '19

Nothing to do with rails. It's your virtualenv by Python and additionally your .bashrc or .zshrc might be broken

Vicente G. Reyes • Jul 6 '19

Hey man thanks for replying. This has been fixed already

emptyother • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

Old school gamer!

But would love to have proper and colored unicode emojis in a Powershell terminal like you linux and mac guys. 😥

Theresa • Jun 11 '19

Don't fret, keep your eye on devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline... !

Izzy Ninja ⚔️ • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

I try to keep things bright and easily legible. Colorless ls is a product of me being broken in by many a crash cart sessions at the colo :)

Minh Nguyen (he/him) • Jun 18 '19

Font: Input Mono Narrow at 9.0 pt

Colour scheme: Base16 Outrun Dark

Shell: Zsh, with Pure

DeChamp • Jun 11 '19

So my buddy actually owns one of the most popular repos on github for iterm (and other) themes., it has hundreds of themes and you can add to them.

github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-...

I use mine "Purple peter".

Igor Ilic • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

I'm using linux mints native terminal application with fish for my shell :)

I've also changed the default welcome message to run a fortune -a | cowsay

Chatchai Saratakij • Jun 11 '19

Terminal : st
Shell : zsh
Font : Roboto Mono
Split handle by i3wm and in case of no graphical environment (tty)
tmux with i3 friendly config will be use.

Boris Jamot ✊ / • Jul 2 '19

Deepin-terminal with dracula theme
tmux + gpakosz's conf + home made dracula theme
fish + spacefish prompt
colorls + home made dracula theme
neovim + dracula theme

Mario Radomanana • Jun 14 '19 • Edited

I use terminator : doc.ubuntu-fr.org/terminator
Ponysay for the pony : github.com/erkin/ponysay

Carlos Eduardo Villalta • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

Here's mine :)

I use Alacritty and tmux for sessions :) I use Vim as an editor and I start a separate instance of alacritty without tmux for it for performance purposes.

Nick Taylor • Jun 13 '19

I was on zsh them switched to fish for about 2 years, and now I'm back on zsh. 🙃

Han POJO

@nickytonline

3/ I was really happy with zsh/oh my zsh, but the awesome Fish auto-complete is what sealed the deal for me. #devtools

01:34 AM - 25 May 2017

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Han POJO

@nickytonline

@chantastic @holtbt @nnja I've been on fish the past couple of years. Maybe I should revisit zsh. 🤔

01:27 AM - 04 Jun 2019

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Han POJO

@nickytonline

@chantastic @holtbt @nnja Autocompletion in fish is what I love, and this zsh plugin handles that, github.com/zsh-users/zsh-…. So I'm back on zsh on my home machine. Gonna tweak it a bit more before popping it on my work laptop.

02:22 AM - 07 Jun 2019

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I've switched my theme a bunch of times for my terminal, but I always seem to come back to the Agnoster theme.

agnoster / agnoster-zsh-theme

A ZSH theme designed to disclose information contextually, with a powerline aesthetic

agnoster.zsh-theme

A ZSH theme optimized for people who use:

Solarized
Git
Unicode-compatible fonts and terminals (I use iTerm2 + Menlo)

For Mac users, I highly recommend iTerm 2 + Solarized Dark

Compatibility

NOTE: In all likelihood, you will need to install a Powerline-patched font for this theme to render correctly.

To test if your terminal and font support it, check that all the necessary characters are supported by copying the following command to your terminal: echo "\ue0b0 \u00b1 \ue0a0 \u27a6 \u2718 \u26a1 \u2699". The result should look like this:

What does it show?

If the previous command failed (✘)
User @ Hostname (if user is not DEFAULT_USER, which can then be set in your profile)
Git status
- Branch () or detached head (➦)
- Current branch / SHA1 in detached head state
- Dirty working directory (±, color change)
Working directory
Elevated (root) privileges (⚡)

Customize your prompt view

By default…

View on GitHub

Enough talking. Pics!

I don't have a post specifically about my terminal setup, but I have one about my Mac setup that also includes info about my terminal setup.

My Mac Setup

Nick Taylor ・ 9 min read

#productivity #developertools #webdev

and in VS Code with the Night Owl theme.

and if you're interested here's my VS Code setup.

My Visual Studio Code Setup

Nick Taylor ・ 6 min read

#visualstudiocode #developertools #texteditor #vscode

Dominic Shelton • Jun 12 '19 • Edited

iTerm2
zsh
solarized dark though I'm thinking of swapping this out for something a bit more cyberpunk, probably cyberpunk-neon
git info in $PROMPT from this gist

Yechiel Kalmenson • Jun 11 '19

Emoji indicating if the last command was successful or not
User and host name
Current working directory
Current git branch

Victor Yarema • Jun 12 '19

You can also use commands "true" and "false" to generate just exit codes. Another more or less elegant way may be to use subshell like "( exit 0 ; )" and "( exit 1 ; )".

Abhinav Kumar • Jun 12 '19 • Edited

Terminal : Konsole with Solarized Light theme
Shell : zsh with prezto
Font : Fira Code
System : KDE neon 5.16

Pure prompt (available in prezto)
z.lua for faster cd
ripgrep instead of grep
TerminalMargin and TerminalCenter set in Konsole profile

Jonathan Kuhl • Jun 11 '19

Green on black.

Default Mac terminal because I haven't taken the time to install anything better. I tried Hyper but it kept throwing JavaScript/Electron errors at random.

My windows machine has Git Bash, which is nice, and also the default colors.

Glenn Carremans • Jun 11 '19

I have only been a custom terminal user for a couple of months, inspired by your blog post and a couple others.

Terminal: iTerm2
Terminal Theme: Dracula
Terminal Font: Fira Code
Zsh Theme: Dracula

I use the Dracula theme for everything that it supports 😂big fan lol

Victor Silva • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

Here's mine:

Terminology using Solarized Dark color scheme.
Also using Oh My Zsh with the Agnoster theme.

Bryan Robinson • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

I'm super lame overall. I've got zsh setup with a very minimal theme. I've also taken to using VS Code's built-in terminals more. Though standard MacOS Terminal has served me decently through the years.

Solarized has been my color scheme for a while, but I've been playing with the default dark theme in VS Code for everything in there and don't mind it.

Edit: Adding the image because I only kind of know what I'm doing!

James McPherson • Jun 11 '19

When I started using Unix (1st year uni), it was SunOS 4. We had VT100-compatible dumb terminals (mix of green/amber on black), whether it was for accessing the CS, Physics, Maths or Stats servers - let alone the university library catalogue (and OMG that was some ghod-awful COBOL-based thing).

In my second year I got access to the Sun 3/ and 4/ workstations that the CS department had upgraded to over the summer, but they were still black and white. Megapixel displays (1152x900), sure, but still monochrome (not like those flyboys in the newly established EE department!).

For me, a colourised terminal was not something I had access to until my final year of uni when I was able to afford to put together a pc to run linux on. By that point my terminal habits were very much set. Sure, I could have a colourised terminal session, but for all the systems I could access at uni I knew that the only emulation setting I could depend upon being there was monochrome vt100/vt102.

Even after I started working (sysadmin at another uni) and we got schmick new Sun Ultra10s with their 2nd level graphics cards, all the systems that we managed were headless and - again - we could depend on monochrome only.

I don't know what the state of screen reading software on linux or Solaris is these days, but all the software engineering experience I've had where we had to go through exhaustive "Accessibility Section 508" checklists has biased me against using colours unless it's in a browser
or an editor.

Debashis Dip • Jun 12 '19

Terminal: Iterm2
Color Scheme: Dracula
Font: Fira Code
Shell: ZSH
Zsh theme: theunraveler

Zsh plugins:

git
colored-man-pages
colorize
dotenv
zsh-syntax-highlighting
zsh-autosuggestions

Judith • Jun 11 '19

Number Two Pic is me being goofy. That's not my terminal. lol. Great idea @aspittel !

Guadalupe Garza Moreno • Jun 11 '19 • Edited

Here's mine

Kyle Pollich • Jun 12 '19

Terminal: iTerm2
Color Theme: Snazzy
Shell: Zsh + Oh My Zsh
Prompt: Pure

Matthias 🤖 • Jun 12 '19

Here is mine. There is nothing special about it. I use iTerm2 because I like it's split screen mode with broadcast input (which is very useful if you're running commands on multiple servers). I also like large fonts 🤓

I have three addons installed:

kubectx: a tool to switch between Kubernetes contexts
Kubernetes prompt info for bash and zsh
A simple shell script that displays some git information (e.g. current branch)

Nayden Gochev • Nov 8 '19

I wish it looks like this :

Yes and YES with star wars even in the terminal !!!

But in fact it looks like this:

Omar Lozada • Jun 12 '19

Using Manjaro KDE with Terminator
zsh, tmux

Nicky Meuleman • Aug 17 '19

Oh-my-zsh with the Agnoster theme.
Through the Windows subsystem for Linux. In the Windows terminal.

I go through setting it up in dev.to/nickymeuleman/wsl2-zsh-and-...

Jonas Brømsø • Jun 11 '19

Some random directory, using Liquid Prompt (own branch, supporting Perlbrew see the other screenshot for Liquid Prompt in full effect together with smartcd.

$Me not knowing what I am doing: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯$

Oleg Aleksandrov • Jun 11 '19

Dave Jacoby • Jun 11 '19

Meaning: I don't need updates, my Taskwarrior tasks are up to date, this is the time, this is the current temperature (within delta of my current location), I've had two cups of coffee today, my FitBit steps aren't tracked (because my tracker broke this weekend) and I'm in my home directory.

Thomas Landin • Jun 11 '19

Here's my contribution. I'm using the Base2Tone colour-scheme called Heath Dark, and I've set up my window manager to read its colours from .Xresources as well so my entire desktop matches.

I use gruvbox light for my vim colours though, as I've read some compelling information that dark-on-light is easier on your eyes in the long run.

Dan • Jun 14 '19

I just finished setting things up with zsh, iterm2, and spaceship. Thanks for your previous post about that Ali. I wasn't satisfied with the common powersomething9k theme and spaceship looked quite simple. I carried over some colours that I previously set up in terminal.