Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!
Like some of You know, there are Ways to customize the zsh and fish shell out there. And I liked the Way you can do this. But I don't want directly use another Shell. So, I looked if there are Possibilities for Bash. And I found it:
Oh My Posh!
Oh My Bash!
Synth-Shell
So, I would like to know if someone here are using one of them on Zorin and if yes: how the Experience is with that? Was/Is the Installation problematic? Do You have/Did You had Problems with the Usage and the Customization? Stuff like that.
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Did you used one of them? And if yes, how was it? Was it easy to handle or were there Problems?
I had used Starship back when I was on Zorin 16. It's configuration file is in .toml format which was easy to understand by looking inside the file and with a few trial and error test if using for the first time. I used the Tokyo-Night preset and just did few modification like adding the 'Z' and removing the git status that's all.
These are the only two Screenshot left with me now
One thing is important that you need a Nerd-font, set in the terminal in-order to display the prompt's elements correctly. Like the 'Z' logo you see in my prompt is an Nord-font icon and it will display correctly if you had Nerd-fonts enabled.
One trouble I had with the Nerd-fonts, I guess. On my end I had to set medium or semibold style from nerd-font set (can't remember which one exactly) in-order to get the correct size of the icons. Everything-else worked fine as expected.
As for the ble.sh I had tried it once. It's not a prompt customizer rather it provides you some nice feature like syntax-highlighting and easier navigation of the previously used commands. But it was kind of distracting for me so I stopped using it. I just prefer the basic Bash features.
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I looked a bit and decided to use Starship and played a bit with the .toml File to create something that fits to the Graphite Dark Theme that I use. It is decent but I like it so far:
The Terminal Background is a bit transparent (mad in the Terminal Settings). And I used the Colors from the Graphite Theme. In Starship You can directly work with Hexcodes; that was practical for me. And I added Symbols for the Home folders (Pictures, Documents etc.). You can see it on the Picture in the 2nd Row after ''skull''.
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