Customizing the Powershell terminal with oh-my-posh
7 July 2022
Motivation
Default terminal in a powershell looks like the following and this blog helps in making the terminal look fancy with features
Before
After
Nice to have
Good to have the Windows Terminal (or Preview) app installed from Windows app store for customizing the font
Steps
Install Nerdfonts
Fonts can be previewed using https://www.programmingfonts.org/#agave
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Pick any font available here and install it on the Windows machine by downloading it
- Download the zip file and extract the ttf files
- Right click and hit
install
as shown below
Install winget
on the machine
There are multiple ways of installing winget
on a given windows machine. One easier thing would be to look for winget
in the Windows Appstore and shows up as App Installer
.
Sometimes this doesn't go through and a reliable way to install winget
would be, via the github releases of official git repository: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases
Double click on the .msixbundle
file and go through the prompts and Winget
will be installed
Install oh-my-posh
Run the following command
winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh
Expected output should look similar to the Following
Found Oh My Posh [JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh] Version 8.13.1
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/releases/download/v8.13.1/install-amd64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 6.55 MB / 6.55 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
Add the oh-my-posh
command to Powershell profile file
-
Use your favorite text editor and open
$PROFILE
file, which gets run before the powershell launches, using VSCode (code
) here to launch the profile filecode $PROFILE
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Add the following linked
oh-my-posh init pwsh --config "$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\paradox.omp.json" | Invoke-Expression
Restart Windows Terminal App