How to customize your terminal like a developer using zsh

Turn your Terminal like a pro using zsh

Let’s see the installation of the Ohmyzsh. Before actually using it in your default terminal try to apply on another terminal.

I use Gnome-Terminal as my default shell, to test this I downloaded Terminator. If you want to test it in terminator, then install terminator by sudo apt install terminator
Now check if you have zsh installed in your system. Type zsh --version. If you get a version number as response, then you have already installed it!. If you don’t have, install it by using sudo apt install zsh

Now we need to install the Ohmyzsh tool.. For that install the script by using any of the following method..

Via curl

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

Via wget

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

Via fetch

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

Boom, you have just installed the theme! But you need more to do for customizing it..

Go to this link https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes and note down the name of the theme you like.
Now just type nano ~/.zshrc in the terminal. We are using nano editor for editing the .zshrc file. You can also use your own one’s but recommended is nano.
You can see a line ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell". Now in the place of robbyrussell or any other insert your theme name that you liked in the above step.
Note : Some of the themes need PowerLine Fonts. You can directly install it if you are in a Debian or Ubuntu based systems by sudo apt-get install fonts-powerline.