Show Off Your Terminal

Introduction

Have you seen some of those beautiful terminal setups in the presentations. Do you want to change your bash to this from this

This blog shall cover beautification of bash on Ubuntu 19

Installation

Step 1: Install Oh-My-ZSH

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Step 2: Install a Powerline Font Follow the instructions from here

https://powerline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/linux.html#fonts-installation

Execute these commands to install the fonts

wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf
wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf
mkdir ~/.local/share/fonts/
mv PowerlineSymbols.otf ~/.local/share/fonts/
fc-cache -vf ~/.local/share/fonts/
mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

Next, we need to download a bunch of additional fonts

> git clone https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts.git
> git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git
> exec zsh
> git clone https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel9k

Backup the existing ~/.bashrc and copy the version from here https://gist.github.com/hariinfo/df486e2f321372646d449fcb875c88b9

1.) Download a Nerd Font from here https://nerdfonts.com/, for my version of bashrc file I am using RobotoMon font from here https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v2.0.0/RobotoMono.zip

2.) Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts 3) Download to ~/.fonts https://github.com/spencerhakim/zsh-snarf/blob/master/Knack%20Regular%20Nerd%20Font%20Complete.otf

3.) Run the command fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache

If everything went as expected, you should be able to see the new terminal display.