oh-my-zsh-config

My personal ZSH configuration.

Requirements

To use this repository, you have to install the following softwares.

• Git
• cURL

Installation and configuration

To use this configuration, you have to follow some steps and configure your local environment.

Installing Zsh

To install Zsh use the command bellow:

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

After install Zsh all configurations and environment variables will be placed at ~/.zshrc so the ~/.bash_profile won't be used anymore.

IMPORTANT: Make sure you have cURL installed in your local machine.

Firacode font

This project uses the Spaceship theme, and firacode has a lot of icons used by this theme, so before install the theme we need to make sure the font is installed.

• First you have to download the .zip from the latest release of the font here.
• Extract the zip and install, each system has a different way to install, normally on debian distributions, you can open the fonts inside the folder TTF and double clik on each file to install.

Spaceship theme

Now with zsh and font configured, you may want to install the Spaceship theme. This theme is really useful for devs who wants to see the versions of Node, Docker, etc.

First you have to clone the theme repository locally:

git clone https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt.git "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship-prompt"

Now, create a new symbolic link between the theme and the folder theme from zsh.

ln -s "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship-prompt/spaceship.zsh-theme" "$ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/spaceship.zsh-theme"

Then you just to set the theme on your .zshrc file.

ZSH_THEME="spaceship"

Plugins configuration

Plugins can be very useful and zsh allows to install it, the repository has reference to some, and before using the config, be sure you have the plugin tool installed.

First you have to download and install ZInit

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit/main/scripts/install.sh)"

After the installation, your .zshrc will have the following line:

### End of ZInit's installer chunk

And bellow this line you can paste the lines:

zinit light zdharma/fast-syntax-highlighting
zinit light zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
zinit light zsh-users/zsh-completions

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting section.

How to set zsh as default terminal for my user?

Execute the command bellow and restart your computer.

sudo usermod --shell $(which zsh) $USER