My terminal configuration

A repository to document the setup of my custom terminal prompt and to share the terminal engine configuration files. Consider this a far less cool .vimrc.

Steps to setting up oh-my-posh

In case you accidentally brick your computer.

Prerequisite steps for Windows Terminal

• Install powershell from the Microsoft store.
• Change powershell to be the default shell in the Windows Terminal app.
• Pop open the settings.json file.
• Set the hidden field to true for Windows Powershell.
• Bring the bottom profile to the top.

Installing oh-my-posh

• Run

  winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget

• Restart Windows Terminal
• Head to Nerd Fonts and download any one of those fonts
• Drag and drop all of them in the fonts folder
• Change the font of powershell in the settings

Creating a default profile for powershell to run

• Create a new directory in the Documents folder named PowerShell
• Run

  echo 'test string' > C:\Users\deshi\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

• Open the new profile initialised in VSCode
• Get rid of everything and type

  oh-my-posh init pwsh --config 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/jandedobbeleer.omp.json' | Invoke-Expression