Setting up Oh My Zsh

This tutorial follows GeekHour’s Guide.

Install Zsh

First we should set up Zsh as our default shell.

$ cat /etc/shells
...
/bin/zsh

If you see the zsh in your results, then you can skip this step.

Otherwise, install zsh with yum, apt, etc.

Install Fonts (Optional)

Oh My Zsh recommends several fonts to appear perfectly, but sadly looks like I am not familiar with these fonts and feel uncomfortable so I decieded to skip this step.

Following the ReadMe page of theme Powerlevel10k that we are going to use, you can decide whether to install them or not. They provides better experience for Oh My Zsh users (More fancy UI I think).

I am continuing using the Microsoft’s Terminal’s default choice Cascadia Mono.

Install Oh My Zsh

Either install directly from their repo

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Or when you needs mirror…

wget https://gitee.com/mirrors/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh

but updates the repo’s places before executing the script.

In install.sh:

# Default settings
ZSH=${ZSH:-~/.oh-my-zsh}
REPO=${REPO:-ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh} -> REPO=${REPO:-mirrors/oh-my-zsh}
REMOTE=${REMOTE:-https://github.com/${REPO}.git} -> REMOTE=${REMOTE:-https://gitee.com/${REPO}.git}
BRANCH=${BRANCH:-master}

Then execute the script to install Oh My Zsh.

Run exec zsh to start the zsh shell.

Setting up the Powerlevel10k and Other Plugins

First clone their repos to local.

# powerlevel10k theme
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k
# zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
# zsh-syntax-highlighting
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Then write them into the .zshrc file.

echo 'source ~/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme' >>~/.zshrc

Edit .zshrc again to add plugins.

plugins=(
  git
  zsh-autosuggestions
  zsh-syntax-highlighting
)

Restart zsh to set up the theme.

You can further adjust what to enable in .p10k.zsh file.

Hope you will enjoy it!