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This is a follow-up blog post to a previous article on enhance your developer experience with Windows Terminal and PowerShell, specifically with regard to the setup of oh-my-posh
Based on the website, the recommended way now is to use winget to install oh-my-posh
winget
is a Windows Package Manager to enables users to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers
Uninstall
First, let's get rid of the old configuration and setup done previously
Launch
Powershell
Run
Remove-Item $env:POSH_PATH -Force -Recurse
Run
Uninstall-Module oh-my-posh -AllVersions
Run
code $PROFILE
- This will launch your PowerShell profile on
VSCode
- This will launch your PowerShell profile on
Remove the following from your profile
Import-Module oh-my-posh
lineSet-PoshPrompt night-owl
- Or any profile you have defined previously, in my case, it was
night-owl
- Or any profile you have defined previously, in my case, it was
Remove
%USERPROFILE%\.oh-my-posh
from yourPATH
environment variable
Now, re-launch your PowerShell, it should look plain now
Installation
Now that we have removed it, we need to set up oh-my-posh
again
Launch
PowerShell
Run
winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget
Restart
PowerShell
terminalRun
oh-my-post --version
- Your version will differ from mine, depending on when you install it
PS C:\Users\Joseph> oh-my-posh --version
12.13.1
Now that oh-my-posh
is installed, we have to instruct PowerShell
to use it
Run
code $PROFILE
Add
oh-my-posh init pwsh | Invoke-Expression
to the last line of your $PROFILE
What about setting up the theme? It's quite straight forward, upon installation of oh-my-posh
, it also set up an environment variable POSH_THEMES_PATH
to point to the location of the themes.
- Replace
oh-my-posh init pwsh | Invoke-Expression
withoh-my-posh init pwsh --config "$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\night-owl.omp.json" | Invoke-Expression
in your $PROFILE
Replace
night-owl.omp.json
with your preferred theme
Your theme is now back!
bashrc
If you have set for .bashrc
previously, you might need to update the path
// from
eval "$(oh-my-posh --init --shell bash --config ~/.oh-my-posh/themes/night-owl.omp.json)"
// to
eval "$(oh-my-posh --init --shell bash --config ~/AppData/Local/Programs/oh-my-posh/themes/night-owl.omp.json)"
WSL
If you have set for WSL (previously)
Launch your terminal
Run
sudo wget https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/releases/latest/download/posh-linux-amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/oh-my-posh
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/oh-my-posh
And if you are using zsh
within your WSL
, remember to update your .zshrc
config as well
zshrc
# use vim if you like
nano ~/.zshrc
# place this at the end of the file
# we are referencing to our theme in Windows path
# switch the username to yours
eval "$(oh-my-posh --init --shell zsh --config '/mnt/c/Users/Joseph/AppData/Local/Programs/oh-my-posh/themes/night-owl.omp.json')"
// Reload profile
exec zsh
If you face this error Error: unknown flag: --millis
This is likely that your configuration is wrong, ensure you point to the correct path in your shell (e.g zsh) config
That should be it. Enjoy your newly setup terminal!