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What is your favorite ZSH theme?

Noah Trupin on November 23, 2019

I've being using the classic robbyrussell with Oh My ZSH for quite some time now, and I'm looking for ideas about what to used next.

So, what is your favorite ZSH theme?

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Abdurrahman Hafez

I have been using space-ship for about a year.
github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-p...

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Roman Perepelitsa

Powerlevel10k is an order of magnitude faster, easier to configure and has more features. Give it a try.

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Honza

I was happy with Wes Bos' Cobalt 2 – but mate… Now, I'm a believer – Powerlevel10k is sweet!

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Mohammed Almajid

how to shorten the directory?

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Roman Perepelitsa

Run p10k configure. If the directory is too long for your liking, open ~/.p10k.zsh, search for POWERLEVEL9K_DIR_MAX_LENGTH and set its value to 0.

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Noah Trupin

I'm really liking the usage of color in this theme! Really lets you see what's important at a glance.

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Damián Cravacuore

I made my own Frankenstein theme raw:

raw theme example

# Inspired by making a mixture the following themes:
# robbyrussell + arrow + lambda
# changing some colors and elements positions

local ret_status="%(?:%{$fg_bold[grey]%}λ :%{$fg_bold[red]%} λ )"
PROMPT=' ${ret_status}%{$fg[magenta]%}%c %{$fg[black]%}➤ %{$reset_color%}'
RPROMPT='$(git_prompt_info) %{$reset_color%}'

ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX="%{$fg_bold[grey]%}git:(%{$fg[cyan]%}"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX="%{$reset_color%} "
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="%{$fg[grey]%}) %{$fg[yellow]%}✗"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN="%{$fg[grey]%})"
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Fred Vassard

I have been using powerlevel10k for a while now. It has a nice setup/config and is pretty flexible.

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Jeklah

Without a doubt, Powerlevel10k.
github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

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Igor Moura

Kind of a shameless self plug, but I've made my own based on a theme from bash-it that I really liked, you can find it here.

imp theme

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Noah Trupin

Well done with the theme! The blue/green color combination is a nice touch

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Igor Moura

Thanks, really appreciate your words :)

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Madiyar

Bira

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Nick Taylor • Edited

I use Joker or Agnoster. Lately I've been on Agnoster.

zsh Agnoster theme terminal screenshot

More about my setup here:

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Dante Calderón

I like the default theme.

ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"
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Manan Joshi
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Glenn Carremans

The Dracula 🧛‍♂️ theme is cool and minimalistic.
github.com/dracula/zsh

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Noah Trupin

I use Dracula with VSCode, you can't really go wrong with it

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Johnny Bell

You should check out Pure. It’s amazing. Doesn’t come default with Oh My Zsh, but you can install it and link it.

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Heiker

But there is one that is based on that theme, I think is called refined.

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Johnny Bell

I’ll check it out. Thanks.

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Noah Trupin

Wow! I really like the color and minimalism in that one.

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Johnny Bell

Yeah. I changed from a custom theme I built about a month ago and I’m in love ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Dmytro Kyshchenko

Bira

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J. Tanner Porter

Agnoster is my perfered do far. Interested in trying refined though, looks nice.

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Scott Tesler

The Dracula theme.

draculatheme.com

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Mohamed Hazem

Spaceship of course

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Ben Sinclair

My favourite theme for anything is Gruvbox, and I've been using variations on it since it came out.

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Pål Nes

Lambda all the way.

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Jesse M. Holmes

I’ve only ever used bullet train. 😊

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Tacio Nery

I like simple themes. I use Gitster Lambda since 2017

github.com/ergenekonyigit/lambda-g...

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Jacob Colborn

I've been using Dallas since installing ZSH. I am new to ZSH though, so it's only the 3rd or 4th theme I installed.

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gustavobcampos

It's just like 9k but faster

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Roman Perepelitsa

You can use Powerlevel10k as a faster version of Powerlevel9k but it's not the whole thing. There are many features that exist only in Powerlevel10k. See github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/b....

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Daniel

I use Ubuntu on windows 10. And Space-ship is my favorite theme.

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Ricardo Grøndahl-Rosado

I used the default robbyrussell for a long time, but switched to bira. Happy with it so far. Need to try out space-ship and powerlevel10k though.