Arch Linux: Getting Started With ZSH

In this video we are getting started with the ZSH shell in Arch Linux. The ZSH shell is another popular shell for Linux, which offers lots of customization options with plugins and themes. Here we are installing it, and we're going to configure basic settings and the Oh My ZSH framework, where we can install and activate plugins and themes.
ZSH on the Arch Wiki: bit.ly/31l2u1J
Oh My ZSH: bit.ly/2DbYd8S
Themes: bit.ly/31f9IV2
Arch Linux Plugin: bit.ly/3hYRu0G
Plugins: bit.ly/2XsG7X0
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Thanks for this good tutorial to install ZSH, I will wait for the second part to decide which plugins to install. Regards

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I get this error when running the wget command: zsh: argument list too long: sh

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how do you change emacs to vi? I cannot access the initial setup screen. I started learning vim so I would like to switch to vi in the settings.

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I'm trying out MX Linux and it works smoothly in my potato machine.

[@umka7536]

Another neat feature of ZSH is suffix aliases. You can launch associated applications by just typing file name (e..g alias -s {txt,md,conf}='nvim' will allow to open files with those extensions in NeoVIM by just typing file name in the terminal. E.g. $ my_text.md and hit Enter.

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Reminds me of windows.

[@raydiviney7623]

I am running arch with gnome 40. When i get to 14.02 in the video installing ohmyzsh frame work it does not say if finds the .zshrc file and it does not prompt me to to change me to the default to Zsh. Is anyone else having this problem? I have tried to change to Zsh using the chsh -S /usr/bin/zsh command. It says it change but when i check what shell i am in it still shows bash

[@deusexmachina3496]

thanks for clarification about terminal vs shell, I remember I could not wrap my head around why I could not run `zsh` in i3 window manager..., but it said I needed terminal emulator, that was super confusing initially

[@rotflol6666]

my default plugins are: git keychain z history ubuntu geeknote zsh-navigation-tools common-aliases tmux z is gold! for quick directory changes. I like fox for the theme :-) HTH

[@RC-Heli835]

Nice I have all this working now! Does the original .zshrc need to be copied to the top of the new one?

[@hugusACFgugaefgo]

Best tutorial ever!!!! I was the first. Do you use zhs?

[@umka7536]

Spaceship prompt is very powerful. And also, very needed plugin is "url-quote-magic". Because when you paste URLs in the ZSH for e.g. CURL its behavior is different from BASH and you have to backslash symbols like "?", "=". Or put whole URL string in the quotes . url-quote-magic does exactly that - it analyzes URLs you paste in the terminal and automatically backslashes special symbols.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing this!

[@umka7536]

@@eflinux Thanks a lot for your videos. I switched to zsh only couple month ago and I really like it. But honestly, while it has all those nice tweaks, I think I can live with BASH + (BASH command complete) + FZF + and starship.rs promt. :) And, for the compatibility reasons, I write all my scripts for /bin/sh, POSIX compliant. So, I don't really have many dependencies on ZSH.

[@eflinux]

Good point.

[@joaodejesus9]

I'm using ArchWSL, when installing the zsh it doesn't generate this little setup tutorial which creates the .zshrc file.

[@JWCM2128]

I have a error, when I wrote the plugins in .zshrc, when update with source .zshrc show me a error message: [oh-my-zsh] plugins ‘zsh-syntax-highlighting’ not found, please help me.

[@eflinux]

That means probably you didn’t install the plugin correctly.

[@nuoyan7111]

Please tell me how to install a font that can display Chinese characters and ZSH theme special characters?

[@eflinux]

You can find fonts here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Localization/Chinese#Fonts

[@DriscollJeff]

I am trying this on a base Arch install without a graphical desktop / window manager. I think I am missing some fonts.

[@eflinux]

Yeah, without it even some functionality will be missing.

[@DriscollJeff]

@@eflinux What fonts need to be installed? I got dwm and st installed. Even when running under st there appears to be a missing font.

[@eflinux]

I'd definitely install ttf-dejavu at least.

[@neeraja3875]

You mentioned zsh with oh my zsh will effect the resources in a way. Did you mean CPU and memory usage or anything else?

[@eflinux]

Yes, exactly.

[@nuoyan7111]

I just upgraded the Arch Linux network card and the device is gone. Can you help me

[@eflinux]

You should check if the card is blocked by rfkill. You can look at the video for the July ISO to see how it works.

[@nekoill]

I love zsh so much, but I have no idea why. It just feels so right to use it. I don't really give much damn about Apple's choices for their products, but there gotta be a half-decent reason for them to switch to zsh as the default shell.

[@eflinux]

Good point.

[@nekoill]

@@eflinux not too good, but it's something :)

[@craigstone975]

There is no way I could do vlan mgmt on alcatel 7750 or wans without zsh. It is a must for any serious admin

[@craigstone975]

Any plans to do an armv8 install for arch? Raspberry Pi crowd would love ya.

[@eflinux]

Huuu, intriguing :)

[@anonymousghost5384]

Use neovim instd vim

[@yasargoktas]

How delete commond history? 😕 I tried history clear and history -c but don't working

[@eflinux]

If you mean clearing up the terminal it’s ctrl + l

[@yasargoktas]

@@eflinux Thank you for answer but no I want delete terminal history. Example: bash shell history is desktop .bash_history or fish shell--> history clear yes.

[@eflinux]

You should be able to remove the ~/.bash_history.

[@yasargoktas]

@@eflinux i forget write i use zsh shell Thank you I removed ~/zhistory and it done. 👍👍👍

[@joserafaeltic]

You were to do a live of the installation of btrfs, which more deeply about the file system at the end of July and so far nothing! you forgot?

[@eflinux]

Thanks for your comment. I didn’t forgot about it, it’s just I had some things to take care of here at home, pandemic related. I’ll do the live stream probably at the beginning of September. I’ll update the date as soon as I have a fix date. Sorry for that 😐

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i use fish:D

[@eflinux]

Fish is great!

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[@ceobe6872]

How to change default shell to zsh?

[@eflinux]

You can see this wiki here: wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Command-line_shell#Changing_your_default_shell

[@ceobe6872]

@@eflinux Thanks

[@jamirvillarosa7924]

*omz update* is now the way to update omz.

[@user-gp8ub8vh7i]

I don't know why I watched the video :-). Though I used zsh before, with zim framework instead of oh-my-zsh, Im happy in bash with just bash completion and only the path in the prompt: [~]$

[@arashkmahshidfar7780]

The bash completion by default without any configurations is nowhere near zsh's completion.