My "oh-my-posh" Custom Theme : EnergY

Preview

This is a preview of my Windows Terminal with my custom Oh-My-Posh theme

Windows Powershell

Windows WSL/Ubuntu

It can also be integrated with vs code terminal too !!

Windows Powershell : Installation and setup

Nerd Font

• Download the zip of any nerd font that you like from the github release page, extract it and install it to you machine :

  • https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases

Personally, I use both JetBrainsMono font and the Hack font

oh-my-posh CLI

• Install the official Windows Terminal from microsoft store (for best experience)

• Open the terminal and install oh-my-posh.exe and themes via Via WinGet

winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget

• Check if oh-my-posh is working by chosing the default theme

oh-my-posh init pwsh --config "$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\jandedobbeleer.omp.json" | Invoke-Expression

Profile setup up

Add a profile, so that everytime you launch the terminal, the theme should be loaded and ready.

• Add my custom theme energy.omp.json to the oh-my-posh theme directory, you can get the oh-my-posh theme direcotry path by running :

Get-ChildItem ENV:POSH_THEMES_PATH

Name                           Value
----                           -----
POSH_THEMES_PATH               C:\...\oh-my-posh\themes

• Set PowerShell to only require remote scripts to be signed :

New-Item -Path $PROFILE -Type File -Force

• Edit your PowerShell profile script using notepad :

notepad $PROFILE

• Add the following line to your notepad :

oh-my-posh init pwsh --config '$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\energy.omp.json' | Invoke-Expression

• Restart you terminal, if this doesn't work, try adding an exception to your Antivirus as stated by the oh-my-posh documentation :

& ([ScriptBlock]::Create((oh-my-posh init pwsh --config "$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\energy.omp.json" --print) -join "`n"))

• Now your Windows terminal should look new and clean !

For more details, refer to the oh-my-posh doc Windows installation : https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/installation/windows

Windows WSL/Ububtu : Installation and setup

• Install the WSL Ubuntu terminal from microsoft store

• Install unzip as is it required for oh-my-posh installation

apt install unzip

• Install oh-my-posh CLI

curl -s https://ohmyposh.dev/install.sh | bash -s

• Install a Nerd Font with Oh My Posh has CLI ( for me I installed the JetBrains Mono font)

oh-my-posh font install JetBrainsMono

• Choose this font from your teminal windows settings

  • Settings > Profile > Default > Scroll to Apparence > Police type > And choose your favorite nerd font that you downloaded

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• This step is optional :
  • You can import my settings from this repo settings.json and apply it to you Windows terminal by going to Settings > Bottom left > Open Json File > And Paste my json

⚠️ Make a backup of your settings.json first

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• Configure your shell to use Oh My Posh

eval "$(oh-my-posh init bash)"

• Create the oh my posh theme directory and downloand the energy theme

mkdir ~/.poshthemes
cd ~/.poshthemes
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hamza-CHICHI/ohmyposh-custom-themes/main/energy.omp.json

• Now apply the theme

eval "$(oh-my-posh init bash --config ~/.poshthemes/energy.omp.json)"

• If everything is working correcty added it to your profile so next time it loads automatically

## Apply 
echo 'eval "$(oh-my-posh init bash --config ~/.poshthemes/energy.omp.json)"' >> ~/.bashrc
## Restart bash 
exec bash

For more details, refer to the oh-my-posh doc Linux installation : https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/installation/linux

By Hamza-CHICHI