oh-my-zsh-wsl.md

Zsh and Oh-My-Zsh on Ubuntu WSL

Bash on WSL is great.

But if you want a little extra from your terminal you can install zsh and oh-my-zsh pretty easily.

Prequisites

• Ubuntu WSL

Install Zsh

From a bash WSL terminal;

$ sudo apt install zsh

Check the version, oh-my-zsh requires 4.3.9;

$ zsh --version
zsh 5.4.2 (x86_64-ubuntu-linux-gnu)

Set Zsh as Default

We'll want to use zsh as our default shell;

$ sudo chsh -s $(which zsh)

The above should locate zsh and set it as the default shell.

Let's check;

$ echo $SHELL

If the above doesn't return a path to zsh then we can use another approach.

• Open your bashrc file;

  $ vim ~/.bashrc

• Add the following to the top of the file;

  bash -c zsh

Now we have zsh as our default shell.

Install oh-my-zsh

Simply execute the following;

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Agnoster Theme

One of the most popular themes is Agnoster.

Installing it is easy, firstly you'll need the Powerline Fonts

sudo apt-get install fonts-powerline

Then delve into your ~/.zshrc file and edit;

Old
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ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"

New
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ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

Removing user@hostname

You can minimalise things a little by removing the user@hostname section of the prompt.

Into your ~/.zshrc again and add;

DEFAULT_USER="$USER"

Plugins

Active plugins are described in the plugins section of your ~/.zshrc

A comprehensive list can be found here

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