We may have killed p10k, so I found the perfect replacement.

[@prismatic1910]

Im glad youre covering this one, been using oh-my-posh for ages and its the best prompt ive ever used!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

It's really awesome! I've been enjoying it a lot

[@NZ255]

​@@dreamsofautonomy you say your theme is Tokyo Night but have you modified it? Or perhaps you colour grade your videos? When pixel peeping your terminal colours seem very different to most Tokyonight themes. For example your background is darker, and the greens are more towards yellow than blue. I really like your colours is the reason I'm asking :)

[@TheVespart]

I absolutely love the style of your videos. You not only share the step by step path for the build, configuration or topic you're trying to show, but also give a full rundown and explain the why and hows in which you came up with that specific configuration. It not only helps the viewer to build it and follow with more precision, but also teaches them in case they want to edit it to their own use case. It's amazing to watch and learn new things, you are building truly amazing videos. Keep it up my man

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate hearing that.

[@sabirquazi]

a good thing to include in this is to install the correct font so you can get the symbols! But this was great! I got this up and running in warp!

[@Finn_AS]

This channel is an absolute gem! I love your overall style, editing flow and preference to more zen minimalist setups. Got myself setup with p10k from your vid, loving it!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you!

[@krzysi3k-yt]

your videos on Dreams of Code channel are top notch, and now I have found this channel, that is amazing!

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you! I'm glad you like them!

[@cleomenezesjr]

To be honest, something I liked about p10k was the ease of switching between templates interactively. Lately I want to use my time writing code instead of wasting time writing code to write code.

[@utkarshverma1]

How fast does it start up? What I like about p10k is the instant prompt. Does omp have something similar? I remember starship being slower than p10k on zsh because starship has to give up on shell-specific optimisations that p10k enjoys.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

It's a great question. There's no instant prompt freatue from what I can tell. That being said, my startup times are incredibly short so for me it's unnoticeable currently.

[@JohnoScott]

i think this is your best video so far Elliot 🎉

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Thank you!

[@NotaNameInReality]

Tbh fish and omp also work great together in my experience: you really get hooked on the experience, if i do say so myself

[@marsulami6610]

Can you make a video about the configuration of your tmux themes. I really like it, but i don't know how to make it like your themes

[@wi1h]

17:10 the "round" format is exactly what you're looking for

[@picklypt]

I just love the "pure" prompt. It's so clean and no bs. I just install it with oh-my-zsh, no middleman.

[@AgapitoHampaslupa12]

Oh-my-zsh is bloat middleman

[@pacifi5t]

@@AgapitoHampaslupa12 It's not if you don't use any of it's 'plugins'. I use it only because it has a set of features I am really used to. But I could not replicate those yet writing the rc file from scratch. It takes too much time, unfortunately. P.S. i think it the original comment is a sarcasm

[@filmcarbon]

Need a video on your tmux config! Or whatever that bottom line is

[@ushankalover129]

He has a video on it on his main channel!

[@macfrag574]

@@ushankalover129 yes and no, he did update it, and he mentioned moving away from catpuccin, which is what he showed on his main channel

[@ushankalover129]

@@macfrag574you are right, I didn’t think of that. i agree then, a new tmux config video would be cool.

[@alistair1231]

I used to use omp on windows. Maybe I should give that a shot on linux. Really sad to see p10k go.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Yeah it is a shame! But it'll still work for a long time I imagine. I actually am glad to have been pushed to try OMP as I think it has some really awesome features.

[@juniorsundar]

p10k isn't gone. It's still there. Still performant as always. It's just that the author believes the plugin has nothing more to add and i kind of agree. People still use calculator app even though it's basically in same state no?

[@DavidStarkers]

Was really painful seeing you type "clear", try ctrl+l Old school terminal clear signal (Love your high quality animations btw, would love to know how you edit and create these)

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Haha I get this about 4 times a day. My ctrl+l is rebound.

[@RockyPrabowo]

oh-my-posh was ridiculously slow back then when I have to use Windows 10 for work. It needs a whopping 7 seconds for the first launch until it's ready and ~2-3 second for the subsequent run. Maybe it's just Windows issue since even the stock PowerShell 7 needs ~3-5 seconds at first launch and ~1-2 seconds for the next launch. I missed my instantaneous zinit + p10k setup during those times.

[@opposite342]

I also have omp in my windows system's pwsh. It also take quite a while to start up, but I'm pretty sure that's just windows doing windows thing

[@s1nistr433]

This is still an issue under Linux, it takes about a 1-2 seconds for the prompt to load in, where as p10k is instant. Makes the terminal feel bloated and laggy.

[@opposite342]

@@s1nistr433 funny enough I found a thread on their github 2 years ago saying it beats both p10k and starship in performance

[@darthwalsh1]

Were you using the older powershell module based v2 oh-my-posh? The shell-agnostic v3 in this video is a complete rewrite in go.

[@RockyPrabowo]

@@darthwalsh1 I just tried the latest version of it on Windows. It's a bit faster but still a little bit slower than vanilla PowerShell. I think it is just Windows doing its thing. I also tried it on my Linux on a clean bash configuration and it's actually a little bit faster than my full blown zsh setup, so I might want to do a fair comparison in the future.

[@amit12000]

its realy good but how add env variable in prompt

[@nzpc2005]

Could you please tell us what font you are using for your shell?

[@dreamsofautonomy]

JetBrains Mono Nerd Font!

[@SixStringUk]

People seem to like bells and whistles. If you're into pimping your prompt, then I guess OMP is nice. Just remember you don't have to use it. Especially if what you end up with is a fairly standard looking prompt without the fancy backgrounds. I had to write half of the functions I wanted anyway and like my prompt to be clean text, so I finally deleted OMP and just have a couple of bash scripts without dependencies. And also learned how to customize PS1 in the process, so I can modify it without having to look for someone else's scripts.

[@iamunknownperiod3355]

Wait. Oh My Posh is available for other shells aside from Powershell?

[@iamunknownperiod3355]

I use ohmyposh for powershell and ohmyzsh for zsh. I don't have any crazy config though so it doesn't matter that much for me. Anyway, kinda curious why ohmyzsh is not in the running for you.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

I have a video on zsh where I mention why I don't tend to use omz!

[@xpluslog]

tried oh my posh for serval days, but the transient prompt never worked.

[@soymadip.]

In powerlevel10k, i could just install it with zinit, so thath if i just copy zsh folder & the p10k config file, start terminal, zinit would setup everything. Is that possible here?

[@dreamsofautonomy]

You'll need to install oh-my-posh on the other system still but if you use gnu stow or any other dot file management, you'll be able to copy your omp configuration.

[@soymadip.]

@@dreamsofautonomy yeah I do use stow and just a couple of hours ago copied the zsh folder and zinit installed it automatically. Well, this is the only downside in OMP i guess, not big though

[@ziggyshea]

@@soymadip. I have it working via zinit but there might be a cleaner way to do it: zinit ice from"gh-r" as"command" pick"oh-my-posh" zinit light JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh oh-my-posh wasn't recognized as a command, so I just added an "alias oh-my-posh=path/to/zinit/omp/installation" immediately after those lines.

[@TylerHester-m2i]

powerline-go is another option

[@kelldog44]

Not really understanding why you’re saying it’s “entering life support mode”? Powerlevel10k is pretty much feature complete, the maintainer is basically saying they’re no longer going to be responding to help requests.

[@danj0071]

They said “most bugs will go unfixed” @0:09

[@dreamsofautonomy]

The commit literally says "life support mode"

[@adrianscarlett]

There's always something that could be added, feature complete is just not a thing.

[@KaiusKC]

@@adrianscarlett”you can always bloat it more!”

[@danwroy]

He's not fixing the header scrambling problem when you resize the window

[@xour_yt]

I found Oh My Posh quite slower than Starship. Oh, it also supports transient prompts

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Not for zsh...

[@xour_yt]

@@dreamsofautonomy you are correct! I confused zsh with fish while reading the starship docs, apologies for that.

[@n.a.s1096]

f👏i👏s👏h

[@vankuship8362]

hello. I was wondering how you designed the tmux bottom toolbar in the video, please share it in your next video. Thank you.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

It's just tokyo night theme! I have a video on tmux on my main channel, will be doing a refreshed version on this channel once it hits 1M views :)

[@parikshithpalegar4699]

Hey, could you share your tmux status bar config?

[@bycello952]

I’m very interested in that tmux conf …

[@richardbennett4365]

Subjunctive mood. If this be the case, . . .

[@rea_kr]

I like your accent!

[@Marco9603]

Nothing wrong with using "unmaintained" software. If it works, it works.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

I agree. But for some people, they want support. OMP also has a couple of other features that p10k does not.

[@TonioGela89]

@@dreamsofautonomy how about zsh-bench results?

[@Netist_]

what kind of absolute psychopath prefers yaml? madness

[@aura.-X]

which WM are you using ?

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Hyprland!

[@r4uk444]

4 minutes ago is crazy

[@nightmare_js]

is oh-my-posh a replacement for oh-my-zsh?

[@dreamsofautonomy]

I don't use oh-my-zsh personally, but it's more of a replacement for your prompt theme

[@comically_large_chungus]

Oh my zsh is a plugin manager that also handles prompts

[@CreationBoss-b8m]

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[@chuchumba4211]

TMUX

[@andresstreetpunk]

Ohh Starship

[@Yadobler]

What do you think of nix without home manager (but with flakes)? I love the stow program to handle dotfiles but I'm not fond of home manager So I've been trying to wrangle nix to work like it's another dotfile to manage my installed binaries and hardware settings / tweaks that I need but don't fancy having to manually edit in /etc/ Right now it kinda feels like lazy-nvim in that I have a flake-nix file to bootstrap the config file, which handles all the system tweaks, and then it imports a packages nix file, which holds all the program and service names to install. A bit like something you'd parse and pipe into paru/pacman. Then it loads the nix files in modules folder (thinking of it, it's not a very apt name). These are all the nix flake files containing where to source the files (ie github) and how to install them. It's a bit like aur package files. The nice thing is being able to also throw in plugins or extra things to install together. Example being hyprland - I can lump the hyprland-related files and hyprpm plugins and make hyprland load hyprpm (something you can't do in hyprlag conf file) And the nice thing is that if I decide to switch to, say, sway - I can uncomment the import line in the packages nix file - all the plugins and hyprlock and hypridle etc etc are also gone. Was thinking what you think about it. Many people will recommend home manager but I don't feel convinced since everything isn't standardised but forced awkwardly to conform to nix-lang and ultimately dotfiles need to be sourced anyways. The only downside is that I need to symlink my ~/.config/nixos to /etc/ But then everything works like clockwork. I've contemplated so much on going back to arch but being able to manage everything in my config folder is awesome.

[@stephenbroadley9155]

You "prefer a minimal experience"? Disable those icons on tmux, then 👍 😂

[@dreamsofautonomy]

You're not a fan I take it?

[@stephenbroadley9155]

@@dreamsofautonomy it doesn't bother me too much, but if you're looking for a zen experience...

[@diwakarisonyoutube]

First ❤

[@otockian]

I freaking hate the transient prompt...

[@bradyfractal6653]

Yo please stop talking like that. When you repeat the same melody over and over every sentence, regardless of the context of the sentence, it sounds robotic, unnatural, and is so distracting once you notice it you can’t unhear it. It makes it so hard to listen to the video which is a shame because it’s a great script. Just read it like a human and speak like a human would speak please! More and more KZbinrs are doing this these days and i think it’s important to raise awareness and help people improve / stop doing this. Thanks for the great video though (I assume at least cus I could only push through a minute or so before I had to stop)

[@trevortylerlee]

Nah

[@volchonokilliR]

I disagree. To me it helps with listening comprehension

[@richardbennett4365]

That oh my gosh is like that oh my zsh with its umpteen themes that ALL get downloaded, but one can only use one at a time. What a waste of storage. 😮

[@jandedobbeleer2839]

Depends on how you install. You can download and use just the binary as well. Manual installation will allow you to chose to only install the executable.

[@pepavasata6790]

That Tmux config looks amazing, can we get the tutorial for that? Or the dotfiles at least.

[@chrisd.2948]

I think he already has a video covering it on his other channel

[@pepavasata6790]

@@chrisd.2948 Nah, his tmux video has a completely different config.

[@FedericoDanielAnastasi-b9w]

I thought oh my posh was the equivalent of oh my zsh for POwerSHell

[@h3techsme]

Just a point of order: PowerShell itself is cross-platform. It's not Windows only. 💡

[@darthwalsh1]

"Windows Shells"--that irked me. I liked zsh and would have kept using it, except that it was a lot easier to figure out pwsh on my MacBook then try to run a POSIX shell on Windows

[@UvekProblem]

When people use Arch btw and dont want none POSIX

[@Dr-Zed]

I love starship

[@alewis001]

"me and catppuccin have gone our separate ways..." and now I need to know more 😄 I think it was your NvChad or tmux vids that put me on catppuccin and I do like it. I'm intrigued to know why you're no longer using it. Regardless, another great vid! I suspect I'll be trying the zen-zsh from your other vid. Keep up the great content.

[@LokShunHung]

I also started using Catppuccin because of the tmux videos. Would love to know the reason on switching

[@daleryanaldover6545]

oh my fellow catppuccin comrades

[@Ningishzidd4]

Yes please elaborate :)

[@bmetallaoui]

i love this "Fine, i will do it my self" energy.

[@sweetbabyalaska]

I think the point of using a non POSIX shell like fish is purely to have a good user experience, and then you script in bash and launch scripts in bash.

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Agreed. But I like to do loops in the terminal at times

[@pantium98]

in the past, i had some issues with omp, which I can't remember what those were, so i just went back to starship. i might look it at it again since it is now cross platform so that I can use same stuff for my powershell and my wsl instance, and it has some nice features too!

[@adibhanna]

amazing video as usual!

[@MartinBarker]

i been using oh-my-posh for a while now started using it on windows because it's one of the few that works with powershell, and then went i like this install it into my WSL environments :D

[@wintersakuraa]

Can you make a video about your arch configuration? It looks nice btw)

[@theagainagain]

I use starship and have the transient prompt like you say it can’t do, just requires a little fiddling. autoload -U colors && colors setopt prompt_subst function who_prompt { PROMPT="%{$fg_bold[red]%}➜ %{$reset_color%}" } who_prompt zle-line-init() { emulate -L zsh [[ $CONTEXT == start ]] || return 0 while true; do zle .recursive-edit local -i ret=$? [[ $ret == 0 && $KEYS == $'\4' ]] || break [[ -o ignore_eof ]] || exit 0 done local saved_prompt=$PROMPT local saved_rprompt=$RPROMPT PROMPT="%{$fg_bold[red]%}➜ %{$reset_color%}" RPROMPT='' zle .reset-prompt PROMPT=$saved_prompt RPROMPT=$saved_rprompt if (( ret )); then zle .send-break else zle .accept-line fi return ret } zle -N zle-line-init eval "$(starship init zsh)"

[@EmileNani]

I have with starship too 🤙🏾 I'm happy to watch these videos that exposed me to transient prompt as well

[@jrgs.]

Dude, that is amazing. Should be top comment.

[@tykers.]

What font is that?

[@mayakrunal]

Can you please share your t-mux configuration? I like the way it looks :)

[@ejreillyxyz]

I think the "posix-compliance" argument against fish is overcooked - yes there are some differences in the way you do some things, but for everyday interactive use it's so much better (setting variables is SANE, and fish_add_path makes PATH simple). Tide prompt for fish is what I've settled on (after jumping between starship and it for a while) for the transient prompt and quick async feel. The customizability is a bit lacking but everything else makes up. Cheers and thanks for sharing the knowledge :) I've always been curious about oh-my-posh as well

[@pacifi5t]

Non-posix-compliant shells are fine if you know what you're doing. I would advise anyone against using it until they learn shell-scripting, so they won't just copy-paste commands hoping it is going to work

[@DanCojocaru2000]

​@@pacifi5t"If you wanna copy-paste commands, just run bash and paste them there."

[@pacifi5t]

@@DanCojocaru2000 thanks, but I stopped doing that long ago

[@mattymerr701]

The last time I tried fish, it broke multiple distros. They are built with posix shells in mind and of course fish doesn't have conversion built-in, you have to install plugins.

[@ejreillyxyz]

@@mattymerr701 if it “broke multiple distros” it’s probably because you made it your default shell - I only use it for interactive use, my OS still uses bash

[@eliasepg]

I've been using oh-my-posh and it's awesome! Quite simple for configuring

[@kuhluhOG]

And then their is me who wrote a bash script/prompt which: - shows me exit codes IF the command had an error - shows the username - shows either the current hostname or the current containername if I am in one - the current directory name or ~ if it's the homedir - the current GIT branch with the colour changing depending on if there are uncommited changes or not - the time on the right side of the window - the actual line to type in stuff on the next line - different background-colours for each information chunk (and if needed different text colours for better readability) - all of this selfcontained in one file which I can easily copy around

[@avalagum7957]

I like oh-my-posh: no need to install (just download and run), work in Linux and Windows (I have only 1 .json file for powershell and bash), the project seems very active.

[@RazoBeckett.]

Hey everyone, I could use a bit of help. I've gone through the documentation (RTFM), but I'm still unable to figure out how to display only the directory name when I'm in a Git repository. I don't want the full path to show up, just the directory name. However, if I'm not in a Git repository, then I do want the full path to be displayed. How can I achieve this?

[@Taddy_Mason]

Bro just just ship to fish.

[@BradArnst]

You kind of lost me when you rejected starship due to the lack of one insignificant feature; without even testing/trying the rest of it. It's kind of like rejecting a vehicle, that could be the best vehicle you've ever driven, because the cup-holder didn't quite perfectly fit your favourite mug. That better be one hell of a fine mug.🙂 Having said that, I have been undecided on p10k and starship, and will likely check out oh my posh. So, thank you for bringing it to my attention. I can now procrastinate on setting up my prompt instead of doing real work. 😑🤪

[@chyldstudios]

Try starship.

[@YannMetalhead]

Very detailed explanation, thank you.

[@dalanxd]

Why exactly is the Non Posix shell a problem? If you wanna run commands from old scripts, like .sh you just have to put a comment on the top of the file or execute it via shell... Years ago I made the switch to fish and was skeptical of it being a good idea.... it turns out fish is awesome

[@DeferFuncClose]

I much prefer starship. I found it to be easier to use.

[@gungun974]

Today I wrote a fish prompt in fish since my try to replicate my historic zsh prompt with starship went terribly wrong. (CONDITIONS COLORS AND TEXTS WHERE ARE YOU !) So what a funny surprise to see OhMyPosh. This tools seem to solve all my issues with starship but also bring interesting features ! (Like conditional colors yeah). I may try it one day but before it’s can be a good idea to just profit of my new prompt before just throwing in the bin 😅

[@ovidiu_nl]

A couple of weeks ago I spent almost half a day configuring oh-my-posh only to find out the next Monday that it interacts badly with poetry (python package manger) that I have to use at work. For some reason `poetry shell` doesn't properly start the virtual environment when I use oh-my-posh. No issues with starship. I was able to reproduce this on another machine as well. Bummer. I'll try to come up with some minimal instructions to reproduce it and file an issue...

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Are you using the default config or a custom one? I'll give poetry a go and see if I also encounter it.

[@ovidiu_nl]

@@dreamsofautonomy Custom one. Honestly, I was so disappointed that I didn't even think to try to revert to the default. I will, as soon as get the chance.

[@ovidiu_nl]

Alright. I went back to it, and I think I fixed it. I had two left prompts (for a starship look). First one with path, git info and python environment and second one the > prompt itself. I selectively commented out things in my configuration and noticed that if I have newline=true for both prompts then `poetry shell` misfires. So I removed the newline=true from the first one and added a " " at the beginning of the path segment template instead. It seems to work fine now... Bizarre.

[@laughingvampire7555]

the transient prompt looks nice, can you add the date and duration in seconds for the command to make it a little bit more log like?

[@catalystzerova]

Transient prompts do make it harder to give an ai context about your pwd when using ai to debug

[@muslimgamerrr9479]

just use pure, the mode you used in p10k you used is just a copy of pure

[@avalisebrickman9932]

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[@laughingvampire7555]

toml? I spotted the windows user, posing as arch user

[@ayankarmakar9324]

can you give the the link to download your wallpaper ?

[@gigas3651]

I rate this video 6/10 for using yay instead of paru

[@AlaaSaidAhmad]

What the fonts did you use in your distro and terminal ❤

[@6H075T2]

ohmyposh is slow in Windows how does it do in Linux?

[@AndresJoaquinNino]

Some weeks ago I was looking Oh My Posh. This awesome video appears just in time :D

[@sanyika96]

Hi, I wanted to thank you for the video - switching to a more streamlined workflow has made a big difference for me! My next goal is to set up the git staging count using this theme. I've reviewed the documentation, but I'm stuck. Can you provide some guidance on how to display the number of files in my working and staging directories? I'd really appreciate it!

[@mkunikow]

Please compare to starship ...

[@1cadumagalhaes938]

What terminal emulator is that? It looks awesome

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Alacritty! I'm using it with tmux as well.

[@georgefromohio]

So I tried to combine this with your zenful Zsh configuration and I'm about 90% there but not sure how to get the completions to work for docker or other snippets that are added. For some reason tabbing will just populate the menu with cd completions none of the other snippets or plugins... Any guidance would be appreciated.

[@luke.stoodley]

What terminal do you use? I'm really curious cause it looks really clean

[@luke.stoodley]

Nevermind just figured out that it's tmux with a regular terminal On another note I just figured out you run Dreams of Code too 🤦 Confirmed by the twitter being the same on both lol Turns out the voice didn't click cause you seem to speak rather more lax here. I'll yoink your tmux config from there instead XD

[@laniusdev]

Btw, my p10k prompt is basically identical as yours and I had no idea they went into 'life support' mode. I've peen using ohmyposh in pwsh, so I might check it out myself (which seems, copying your config will do).

[@azthecx]

What is the bottombar on your terminal? It seems to be shell tabs, some sort of tmux / zelijj / wezterm with styling? Didn't spot it on your dotfiles

[@raracool04]

I first used Starship on Linux, and only recently found out that it works on Windows too. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN USE TRANSIENT PROMPT???

[@abdulalimmahir]

Tokyonight-Storm and P10K-Lean is my favorite (with a bit of color and icon tweaks) You should share your theme in OMP-themes.

[@VeepsFR]

My suggestion plugin used to function with oh-my-zsh, what is the one he is using and how can I set it up to work in oh-my-posh ? Thanks in advance !

[@John-Dennehy]

I totally disagree with you on the look of the prompt, but will overlook this disgust on account of this being a really really great video.

[@sho6501]

Hi, could you showcase your Linux rice? Love how your terminal/setup looks in all your videos ❤

[@codeman99-dev]

I'm not real familiar with go formatting. Is it possible to use a calculated fill width? In particular, I would like to set the length of the secondary prompt to line up with the end of the base command.

[@MaKaNufilms]

Any Idea why the secondary prompt always falls back to default config?

[@Phaceial]

Zsh is not POSIX either

[@Mojo_DK]

But everybody says so. I am confused now.

[@ar_chbtw]

starship has transient prompt now at least

[@ar_chbtw]

wait didnt know u mentioned it lol buuuuut they have bash instructions now

[@DouglasWiseRogers]

I'm very interested in your project that uses JS and Golang in the same repo. I have a project that I'd LOVE to transition my backend to Golang and always thought I'd have to do it in different directories. Would you care to explain how you managed to do that?

[@dreamsofautonomy]

Absolutely! If you check out my main channel, I tend to do more coding content there.

[@paulr7765]

I used your config on Mac, zsh and Alacritty. Everything works besides transient prompt. Before I had it working using p10k