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kitty + zsh + powerlevel10k = ✨ aesthetics ✨

Who doesn't like a good looking terminal and useful layouts and keymaps?
This has always been my goal since I started using linux as main OS.

I have used lots of different terminals, plugins and settings over the years but I think now
I achieved the glory with my current setup:

setup

Let's have a look to the configuration.

What do I use?

Configuration

Terminal

To achieve a clean look in the terminal, I changed the opacity of kitty, removed the window title bar,
and changed margins. Here the configuration needed:



background_opacity 0.76
draw_minimal_borders yes
window_padding_width 2
window_border_width 0
hide_window_decorations yes
titlebar-only yes
active_border_color none
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I have also added changes for the tabs bar in order to make it look minimalist:



tab_bar_edge top
tab_bar_background none
tab_bar_style powerline
tab_powerline_style slanted
tab_title_template "{fmt.fg.c2c2c2}{title}"

active_tab_title_template "{fmt.fg._fff}{title}"
active_tab_foreground #fff
active_tab_font_style bold-italic
active_tab_background #8631B4

inactive_tab_foreground #c2c2c2
inactive_tab_background #8631B4
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In order to move quick between splits I added the following mappings:



map cmd+shift+up neighboring_window up
map cmd+shift+left neighboring_window left
map cmd+shift+right neighboring_window right
map cmd+shift+down neighboring_window down
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powerlevel10k

There is not much to mention here since I have used the powerlevel10k script to configure it.
Once you install powerlevel10k it should init the configuration wizard. If you want to re-configure
do so by running p10k configure in your terminal.

You can check my powerlevel10k config file here.

neovim

Plugins:

In this case, I got rid of many highlights background colors



highlight LineNr ctermbg=none
highlight Normal ctermbg=none
highlight NonText ctermbg=none
highlight SignColumn ctermbg=none
highlight VertSplit ctermbg=none ctermfg=98 cterm=none
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I have also setup a color column to show a visual limit at 100 chars



set colorcolumn=100
highlight ColorColumn ctermbg=93
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My vim-airline config goes like this:



let g:airline_theme='selenized_bw'

" Show git branch
let g:airline#extensions#branch#enabled=1

let g:airline#extensions#hunks#enabled=0
let g:airline_powerline_fonts=1
let g:airline_detect_spell=0

" Short version for modes
let g:airline_mode_map = {
      \ '__'     : '-',
      \ 'c'      : 'C',
      \ 'i'      : 'I',
      \ 'ic'     : 'I',
      \ 'ix'     : 'I',
      \ 'n'      : 'N',
      \ 'multi'  : 'M',
      \ 'ni'     : 'N',
      \ 'no'     : 'N',
      \ 'R'      : 'R',
      \ 'Rv'     : 'R',
      \ 's'      : 'S',
      \ 'S'      : 'S',
      \ ''     : 'S',
      \ 't'      : 'T',
      \ 'v'      : 'V',
      \ 'V'      : 'V',
      \ ''     : 'V',
      \ }
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That's it! The setup is fairly simple and the results are quite good.

You can have a look at all my config and dotfiles in here.

PS: this article has its source on github.
I'm using a github action to publish it to different platforms. Read more
here

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Sall •

NIce, but maybe to old?

Some freedom to your shell: z.digitalclouds.dev/ 🧙‍‍ ⚡
🧙‍ Why use powerfull Zsh with simple snippets? ✨
Let's glue everything together to create a toolchain that works for US 🚀.

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