Make Windows Terminal look amazing!

[@gregbek5955]

timestamp 15:46 - colormap for bash, if you don't have/want zsh, the following bash shell function produces identical output. function colormap() { for c in {0..255}; do let "d=($c+3)%6" printf "\x1b[48;5;%dm \x1b[49m\x1b[38;5;%dm%03d \x1b[0;37;40m" $c $c $c if [ "$d" -eq "0" ]; then echo ""; fi done; echo }

[@christianlempa]

Oh nice, awesome man! I'll add it to my .bashrc file on github :D Thanks!

[@flipinfin]

This is exactly what I was stating to someone in the comments

[@liquidpower]

loving this windows dev ops WLS2 windows Terminal stuff. as a network eng who likes to run windows and game, its really cool being able to have a good Terminal and having all the linux tools with a great GUI

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! Glad you like it 😁

[@cherrieb8850]

Excellent Terminal Customs Idea’s Thanks

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome

[@simonbrown3540]

Great video, I'm so glad this popped up on my feed. Several hours well spent configuring and customising this across my WSL environments and standardising my terminals. Also led me to install and configure exa which I wasn't aware of but is great. A warning to anyone that uses Defender for Endpoint and Attack Surface Reduction rules; starship.exe is blocked by "Block executable files from running unless they meet a prevalence, age, or trusted list criteria". I had to disable this to get it working. I'm hoping that MS implement a way to whitelist applications in the future. I also wish there was a way to install Starship without Chocolatey, I don't really want to run/use Chocolatey, but I couldn't figure out how.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks mate :)

[@t-roy1605]

Christian, you're an amazing dude. Thanks for your videos.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! :)

[@iamsantanubanerjee]

I always love your customizations! Edit: More than that, I love the starship prompt

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much!

[@cambertoku]

Great content! Thanks for the ideas to customize the shell prompt and keep up your good work! ;)

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! Of course I'll do :)

[@kodosensei]

Woooww Broo!! AWESOMEEE I LOVE your customizations 💻✨

[@ramigamal6637]

Thank you Christian :)

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome :)

[@5inque_wu]

Oh my this prompt customization is a rabbit hole... but thank you for introducing this

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome! Go down the rabbit hole :D

[@aspimbr]

Awesome video!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you bro!

[@sanjeev2003]

I knew it had to be starship prompt when you said I use it everywhere. 😁

[@christianlempa]

Haha that was the right guess :D

[@davidneilson4622]

great video, I've just trolled through the font sets but cannot find the curved corners you have used for the terminal prompts (in your starship.toml file, under the format section) could you advise the ascii code you used??

[@alvarorodriguezgomez8716]

this terminal looks awesome 🎉

[@thebirdhasbeencharged]

Never thought I'd live to see ricing on windoze

[@Spydaw]

Nice! Welcome to the Starship prompt ;)

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! Just looked nice on your terminal :D

[@davidzuccarini8376]

thanks for Teleport. amazing, and nice video thanks for sharing

[@christianlempa]

Glad you liked it!

[@javierarzon4853]

Thats freaking Awesome 😁

[@dedpossum66]

Thank you again for you videos Cristian! Your thoughts on oh-my-posh vs. starship? Personally I like oh-my-posh but it appears that starship-prompt offers more options. Some timestamps that were especially helpful ( I will use these later this week, I will have a new laptop to configure ) - 15:05 character maps - 16:00 distro logos

[@christianlempa]

Thank you! Great feedback on the timestamps :) I haven't tried out oh-my-posh, but I wanted to until someone recommended me starship. And to me personally starship looks a bit better and was very straightforward.

[@dedpossum66]

@@christianlempa Now having tried both, I think that the starship is just all around better. The problem with Posh is visual corruption in windows terminal, and that it can feel quite clunky and is generally less customizable.

[@dragayt543]

How do you use your script? RemoteSigned allrestrictive unrerective rectritive

[@g43s]

Is this the one you download from the microsoft store? im trying to customize the one that comes with windows 11, but when i try to open the settings it opens a json file in vs code and doesnt show much about customizing the app.

[@Gusan96]

Thank you very much, greetings from Argentina 😊

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! Greetings from Ger :)

[@CrazeXD]

For anyone on Ubuntu WSL, and you're having trouble with the Starship, install it normally, then run: echo "eval '$(starship init bash)'" >> ~\.bashrc For some reason that works on Ubuntu but not Kali Linux, haven't tested other distros.

[@irvingsalinas8238]

Wow!! Great video!!

[@christianlempa]

Thx! :)

[@logixthedev]

Thank you Christian, your customizations are VERY nice! What theme are you using in VSCode?

[@dragon3602010]

Awesome and with the pane config, can we save it in case we restart the terminal?

[@christianlempa]

Thanks mate! Yeah you can enable it in the settings under "When terminal starts"

[@sunnynehar]

Superb content, Hi Christian how did you customize your Warp terminal with the same purple texts/fonts? if you have a video could you point me to it.

[@wardaddyfury]

I now know a little bit more about what Windows Terminal can do. 😁😁😁

[@christianlempa]

Awesome 😁

[@Silvermist78]

Thanks for making this how to video! How does one do "run as different user" with Win Term?

[@johnclarkson6120]

Haha, you know what, you're genius 😊😊😊

[@christianlempa]

Thanks ;)

[@YPLabs]

Great channel!

[@D-Inked]

where did you get the background image? Looks really nice, would like to have this too please.

[@finesseandstyle]

Search Mr Robot Background

[@deathkami5876]

How can i get your json file now?

[@Dropifyyy]

Ok if anybody have a question regarding this.. feel free to text me here 😌

[@i4ix]

Awesome! Thanks! All working perfectly... P.S. But at beginning my icons was smaller then yours - I fixed it with the differen font type - JetBrainsMono Nerd Font.

[@christianlempa]

Glad it helped!

[@i4ix]

@@christianlempa AWESOME! By the way. I add zsh-autosuggestions and it's working like a charming. But do not get history from console after relogin.

[@nolanwatts110]

I was struggling with the same thing using the Hack NF...thanks for calling this out; switching to the JetBrains font fixed this for me too. Thanks again!

[@xmidx1577]

I can't find the json file on your github @ 09:23 why did you remove the file? Anyway i like the themes tho.

[@christianlempa]

I changed the repo to dotfiles-win, you find it on my GitHub page :)

[@YousefMohamed-jb8bq]

I always like all your customizations can we use zsh plugins with starship ?

[@christianlempa]

I guess that should work, if you're refering to zsh-autosuggestions, etc. that works on my side

[@Alex1996984]

Nice! One question tho, where did you find these nice icons that we can see on the windows terminal tabs?

[@christianlempa]

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share them, but you could look at a website like icons8 f.e. ;)

[@Alex1996984]

@@christianlempa Thanks! Yes I used icons8 but some icons appear pixelated in the tab. anyway! keep it up!

[@YousefMohamed-jb8bq]

@@Alex1996984 I think he's using a paid version because I'm facing the same pixel problem

[@bltzcstrnx]

@@Alex1996984 MS used to ship Windows Terminal with popular distro icons built-in. Although it is removed in later versions due to copyright issues. Edit: it should be trademark issues, not copyright.

[@bltzcstrnx]

@@YousefMohamed-jb8bq you can change the icon for each terminal. Just find you suitable distro icon or even just any image you like.

[@PhiHDN]

I would like to know how to install Arch with WSL. Could you share the guide to do that? Thanks

[@christianlempa]

github.com/yuk7/ArchWSL

[@gorikrastev4408]

How did you add the other stuff? Aside from Command Prompt, PowerShell and Cloud Shell I don`t have any other command line.

[@gorikrastev4408]

I ask for Kali Linux, Ubuntu Linus and so.

[@christianlempa]

I'll probably make some videos in the future about terminal tools, that I'm using. I'm still waiting though for a great version of exa on Windows. Then there will be a video coming about it :)

[@walkaisa9933]

Yo, could you please make example for fish how to add the automatically distro select and where to set the env?

[@christianlempa]

Sry I’m not using fish :(

[@damianolmedo9248]

great content!

[@christianlempa]

Thx!

[@microsoftsarker]

Thank you so much

[@mr.a.7372]

It is in evaluation mode? Any logs from our computers that goes to programmers? How did you add the windows logo to the prompt? Thanks

[@mathiasdolag8196]

Great ... thanks 🙂

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome 😊

[@jakemeyer8188]

Windows Terminal and WSL are saviors. It makes it so I despise my life juuuust a little less when having to use Windows...

[@Frankie_Freedom]

How awesome unfortunate though I really liked that purple and blue theme

[@tomytoon123]

that is cool looking wallpaper. do you have link for that?

[@ColaFreakder2te]

Awesome video again Christian, but can you tell me the name of the intro song?

[@christianlempa]

Thank you mate! Sure it's "Future Vibes - Qeeo"

[@BeerBrunchBros]

@@christianlempa got it.

[@guepardroyal3122]

hi, thank you for the video ! But how do you use an Ubuntu shell ? Wsl ? But with a wsl you have to install starship a second time to the wsl right? Thank you for your help :)

[@MadChristianX]

Thank You

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome! :)

[@undefinedcode0]

How can I obtain the "WindowsTerminalIcons" folder that you use?

[@jehadmohammed6819]

I really enjoyed the vid! What VS code theme were you using?

[@christianlempa]

I built my own :) it’s called „the digital life“

[@RoyAAD]

How do you make vscode show you the color square in the json?

[@abhirajshourya]

Love it!

[@jmaviles]

Hi Christian, Does your Windows Dotfile has been change? I saw different json schemes color setting vs video, can you share the old one, thank you and great job !!👌

[@cookiebinary]

The Windows Terminal is a great tool and it has improved over the last two years, but I miss the settings and features that I have on the Mac iTerm or on Linux Terminator, for example.

[@许跃-e2z]

where can i download that desktop wallpaper, it's amazing!

[@christianlempa]

Just search for Mr Robot wallpaper :D

[@Lorien311]

Awesome, although i have issues with your starship config you uploaded. All the icons are broken but im not sure if i miss them or if the upload is broken. Or if i have to do them all over ? Just wanted to use the same as you have.

[@christianlempa]

Try out a different nerd-font. Sometimes the Icons are "smaller" or "overlap". I'm currently testing "JetBrainsMonoMedium Nerd Font", which works well.

[@lpsoldier357]

Whats your vscode theme in this video? awesome colors

[@ВадимЛипатов-ю4ь]

The Digital Life VSCode Theme by Christian Lempa

[@TheShinayser]

I copied your starship file and everythign went fine! Except for one thing: the icon for the file types. Any idea what could be going wrong? I am using powershell and using the "ls" command to list them. But it also did't worked on my ubuntu wsl2

[@christianlempa]

The icons in the ls command don't come from starship, it's a separate application called "exa"

[@bobby07241]

Hello Chris can you help me to add status prompt to see if i have an python3 virtual env active ?

[@dylanf4678]

I tried to set up the $PROFILE with the windows logo, " $ENV:STARSHIP_DISTRO = "" " but in the terminal I get random noise. I do have the same font enabled. Anyone know how to fix?

[@Fireshawk64]

I'm having the same problem

[@dylanf4678]

@@Fireshawk64 was able to trouble shoot and apparently if you are using "windows powershell" its hit or miss if the glyphs show up but on "powershell" which is the newer one anyway, it works fine!

[@christianlempa]

I guess it wasn't working for me in the older versions of powershell. This is a complete mess, to be honest. But try it out on powershell7, that worked for me, if I remember correctly.

[@dylanf4678]

@@christianlempa Yup it worked! I did realize I had an old version of powershell. 7 works fine!

[@mishelrodri]

@@dylanf4678 How update to powesehll 7 ?? I have the same problem !! 😭

[@bngitam2852]

Tnks....sobat itu betul banget.....

[@franckleveneur676]

Is there a Blue screen theme for your Termina on Windows? I left Windblows long time ago. Most programmers are on Mac now. At least in USA.

[@christianlempa]

You can find some of my old files for WIndows Terminal here: github.com/ChristianLempa/dotfiles-win

[@slimey6470]

love this!!!!!

[@christianlempa]

thanks :D

[@TVDramaHome]

Could you make a clear video tutorial to config this style of shells prompts ? Thanks in advance

[@christianlempa]

What exactly are you looking for?

[@TVDramaHome]

@@christianlempa I have a problem with the short name of Ubuntu on the Windows Terminal Tab, and other problem is when I run the Terminal Powershell in VS code, my current location and the word 'at' didn't have any spaces. Could you have any suggestions?

[@harshalkakaiya4542]

@@TVDramaHome same here any fixes ??

[@salman.qureshi]

Man, love your content and your wallpaper. Where is it from? Could you maybe pass me a link to a full res version? :)

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much :D I just downloaded it from google, when searching for Mr Robot wallpaper ;)

[@salman.qureshi]

@@christianlempa Thanks. Will look it up!

[@RG_Reaper]

Would you happen to have a setup ps1 that could be used as a 1 liner install?

[@najibabdellaoui6442]

hello, thanks a lot for the tutorial. i tried to use your configuration but the icons are not shown as yours and sorry to ask how did you add the configuration to your zshrc file?

[@christianlempa]

I'll update the repo with a readme soon

[@akshitthakur5179]

Its on your home directory, copy the init script, then type vi ~/.zshrc to open the file in vim.

[@najibabdellaoui6442]

@@akshitthakur5179 thanks, i already got it. thanks

[@leewednesday8754]

That is a wallpaper, where do you usually get them from?

[@serhioromano]

Where are the icons from %userprofile%\WindowsTerminalIcons,

[@mayura3050]

Could you tell me how to customize the file icons also

[@soportelinux]

hello, why does windows have two terminals cmd and powershell? what is the diference between them

[@rekcah]

I want your wallpaper, it's awesome

[@christianlempa]

Thx :) just search for mr robot wallpaper

[@Code-Quake]

Great work. Can you tell me what VSCode theme you are using?

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! Sure I'm using my own one :D marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xcad2k.vscode-thedigitallife

[@DiegoSuarezMartinez]

Do you know why some fonts are not being interpreted by my PC even though NerdFonts has been installed?

[@nabilahmednahid2667]

Your vs code's edges look like a round shape. how did you do it?

[@Klipschh]

First off, great video and love your setup. For PowerShell how are you setting the windows flag icon in the prompt? I see for the Linux distros you are using the script as you mentioned in the video. Are you setting the icon in the PS profile?

[@christianlempa]

Hey thanks! Yes I set it in the profile.

[@dovatti]

Very cool :)

[@christianlempa]

Thanks :D

[@Z3r0M1st]

Where did you get that white PowerShell Icon I can't find it

[@christianlempa]

Icons8 ;)

[@hansphung]

oh never know that it can be splitted. Thanks for sharing. Can you share your Windows theme and wallpaper please?

[@ra2carrier749]

How to display character map like yours? My Character Map started from "charmap" command seems to be very dumb.

[@christianlempa]

It’s a command in my dotfiles you can find on GitHub :)

[@VineetChhabra007]

How do I use your hackthebox custom theme for my zsh on Pop OS?

[@mnrmnr555]

You have some nice icons on tabs on Windows Terminal, can you share please?

[@christianlempa]

I don't think I'm allowed to share them, take a look at something like icons8 ;)

[@alifhossainbits]

which vs code theme are you using?

[@BeerBrunchBros]

What's the song in the beginning?

[@serhioromano]

What was the music?

[@charliedgabriel]

Hello and thank you for your awesome video. How to you share the config across all of your WSL distros? Once again thanks you for your time and help.

[@christianlempa]

I'm using yadm.io, it's based on git and uses the same syntax to create a repo for your homefolder. Pretty useful.

[@JarppaGuru]

2:46 yeah it works. consoles are great. no need desktop. or need windows bcoz all apps you need only on windows there not even close enought on linux i need everyday. and why go sunday programmers kind of same ugly pygui apps xD when have bought windows app todo some but they have not done linux app. and cant just go and change machine os work to linux and say this is how we done we run now sunday programmer cadcam lol

[@ashwinkrishnan4435]

I using ubuntu WSL its says staship command not found after installing it to the /.local and setting /.local to PATH & Adding the bashrc command

[@antoninoromeo4015]

Hi cool!!! i can't find home and lock symbol? can you help me? many thanks

[@thiagohenriquela]

How to add the files-theme-xcad.xaml file to have as a theme choice option? How to change each system logo to black and white, the same as yours?

[@allancomar]

Do you know how to make the up key (to repeat a command) to filter based on suffix like on oh-my-zsh, if you type something like `git pu` and press up it only show commands that start with `git pu` is that possible with the starship? Thanks

[@christianlempa]

I think it should be independet from the prompt, because it sounds like a function of zsh, which is of course fully supported in starship.

[@biggyk87]

do you have the edit the conf in your home dir plus wsl dir?

[@christianlempa]

Not sure, what you mean by that. Can you explain please?

[@surisurendrababu]

any alternatives of fish shell in windows?

[@kittenpixl]

Ubuntu and Powershell is missing from the cmd thing and it gives this error: Could not find your default profile in your list of profiles - using the first profile. Check to make sure the "defaultProfile" matches the GUID of one of your profiles.

[@DavidMontgomerymt]

I love this video tutorial, I have been been using chatgpt in the terminal and wondered if you found any way to have it auto read text. (the windows narrator is terrible and can't really read my terminal properly) Any suggestions on how to enable that in terminal?

[@christianlempa]

Thank you so much! :)

[@andrewbutcher30]

Great video. I was originally using oh-my-zsh. Starship looks good. still working my way through getting the perfect prompt and colour config. 1 question though. I am still unable to get the icons/emojis to work on my mac. any assistance would be appreciated.

[@christianlempa]

Thank you mate :) On MacOS you just need to install the Font, and you need a terminal that supports changing the font. Check out my video about MacOS terminal: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJfKmIdrmtN5atE

[@mehediislamripon]

I've visited your repository named "dotfiles", but couldn't find any folder called "windows". Can you help me please? I'm looking for the file called "settings.json" for windows. Thank you.

[@christianlempa]

Hey mate, I’ve split the repos. You find it in my „dotfiles-win“ now

[@mehediislamripon]

@@christianlempa Thank you so much.