Techdiary: article-image Techdiary: article-image Hey developers, Today I will show you how you can customize your windows terminal with your test like this. Or you can add your own theme. Trust me, and it’s super easy anyone can do. You need to know simple codding knowledge, and you are good to go. If you face any problem, write it down in the comment section. I will try to solve your problem.
In this tutorial, I am trying to make it as simple as I can. I will explain every detail you need to know when you are making your terminal theme.
Without wasting your valuable time, let’s jump to the tutorial.
Follow those simple steps. Set up Powerline in PowerShell Step 1: Install the windows terminal by using this link. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
Step 2: Install a Powerline font https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads Using this link, you will find the font named FiraMono Nerd Font. Download and install it on your system.
Step 3: Now, you need to install Install Git for Windows by using this link https://git-scm.com/downloads
Step 4: Let’s set up Git
Open windows terminal and type (CTRL +, ) to open setting then click on setting icon.
Techdiary: article-image use the link and copy the setting.json and paste your setting.json
Step 5: install oh my posh on windows terminal https://ohmyposh.dev/ Using your windows terminal, install Posh-Git and Oh-My-Posh:
Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser If you are using PowerShell Core, install PSReadline:
Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -Scope CurrentUser -Force -SkipPublisherCheck Customize your PowerShell prompt Using your windows terminal, import module Posh-Git and Oh-My-Posh:
Import-Module posh-git Import-Module oh-my-posh Set-PoshPrompt -Theme hotstick.minimal Now paste one more command
echo $profile It will show you this ps1 file path.
"C:\Users\Shahi\OneDrive\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1"
Then paste another command
notepad $profile It will open a notepad in this empty space. Paste the code below and save it
Import-Module posh-git Import-Module oh-my-posh Set-PoshPrompt -Theme hotstick.minimal Techdiary: article-image Step 6: setup windows terminal setting.json Open windows terminal and type (CTRL +, ) to open setting Change those setting
Techdiary: article-image Step 7: customize windows terminal Theme JSON. In this step, you need to copy-paste my customized theme. Open terminal and run
Get-PoshThemes Now you can see the list of all themes of oh-my-posh. We pick one theme named hotstick.minimal.omp.json
Paste the command to the terminal.
Set-PoshPrompt -Theme hotstick.minimal Now let’s customize hotstick.minmal https://git.io/J3cIq
Check the link and download the hotstick.minimal.omp.json file:
Replace the hotstick.minimal json file on this file path "C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\oh-my-posh\3.134.0\themes"