Terminal

Installation

I use the windows terminal for both PowerShell and WSL. To install:

winget install Microsoft.WindowsTerminal

Profiles

The default profile for Windows Terminal should be PowerShell, because it is easier to move to WSL (by typing wsl). Also, Windows filesystem is too slow on the mounted drive, making git to take 2s for a simple status command instead of few milliseconds on PowerShell.

To re-organize the profiles on the settings and new tabs, open the settings.json and re-order the objects there.

PowerShell

The new PowerShell installation should be performed

winget install Microsoft.PowerShell

For styling OhMyPosh is installed:

winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh

Also install a font with the interactive command (in my case, FiraCode): oh-my-posh font install

Then to configure, run oh-my-posh init pwsh --config "$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\jandedobbeleer.omp.json" and run the command that is returned.

To select a different theme, use Get-PoshThemes now. In my case, I have choose kali and change the previous command to point to the config oh-my-posh init pwsh --config "$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\kali.omp.json"

The returned command should be pasted on the PowerShell profile (notepad $PROFILE). If the $PROFILE is not created, do it with New-Item -Path $PROFILE -Type File -Force

For icons on file-listing, install the module with Install-Module -Name Terminal-Icons -Repository PSGallery and activate add the import (Import-Module Terminal-Icons) to the profile as before.

For better auto-complete, add also to the profile the Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionViewStyle ListView.

WSL with ZSH

I use ZSH instead of bash in WSL. To install:

sudo apt install zsh
chsh -s $(which zsh) # change defaul shell
curl -s https://ohmyposh.dev/install.sh | sudo bash -s # install also ohmyposh

Starting the zsh shell, configure using the wizard the history settings and the default completion system.

To share themes with the Windows machine and do not require to download again, add to the ~/.zshrc the following command:

eval "$(oh-my-posh init zsh --config /mnt/c/Users/$USER/AppData/Local/Programs/oh-my-posh/themes/kali.omp.json)"

Note

The $USER variable can be used here because the same name was used for WSL and Windows host machine. This might differ if not configured like that.

Also, the kali theme is hardcoded as it is the one used before.

For the ls command, exa is used for a more modern feeling:

sudo apt install exa

To add custom aliases, copy the dotfiles/.aliases from the repository and add to the .zshrc the following line:

[ -f ~/.aliases ] && source ~/.aliases