I was looking at using Oh My Posh for Windows Terminal and decided to see if there were any videos on installing and setting it up and luckily you just posted this! Really well made tutorial, thank you!! 😄
Glad this helped. Yeah easy to install as well as uninstall (guess i should have covered that as well). Appreciate the feedback. Still working on my video style.
Good tutorial! Just one point of attention. Be aware that, when using the Windows installer for use in WSL, it uses the Windows binary. This works, but has side-effects as it assumes you're on a Windows filesystem as it's compiled for the Windows runtime. The linux executable is the most interesting one as that one integrates natively with your operating system and has additional support for WSL as it's aware of that runtime.
Great tutorial here for setup the Oh-My-Posh with latest documentation with "cURL" command, some sort of good tips at the end of video for dynamically change the themes.
This isn't working for me. Every time I follow this, I always end up with some bash prompt that says CONFIG ERROR. I follow along to the letter, and yet by min 2:19 or so, everything always falls apart. Then when i type in: vim ~/.bash_profile the terminal just goes mostly blank except for a bunch of this symbol all the way down the screen ~. And at the very bottom is says: INSERT 2,1 ALL. So I just keep going and type in export PATH=$PATH:home/kubuntu/bin (since I'm using kubuntu, not ubuntu). And then nothing. You say you "save" your work, but you never explain HOW to do that. I saw a little wq at the bottom of your screen and looked it up, and apparently you can save by typing w or save and quite by typing wq, then hitting enter. Yet I do that and nothing happens?! I need help getting past this part please. I don't know what is going on or why it isn't working.
oh-my-posh just dropped support for rprompt for bash. transient pompt was never possible with bash and even {{ .Code }} or {{ .Error }} does not work. thus, not really an alternative for me.
Ok, I started over and followed more what the Oh My Posh website said instead of your video and got all the way to showing the theme I want! It finally worked. And after many tries and fails, I finally figured out by a ton of googling, HOW to save the VIM file. So it's saved now. And the terminal theme is there. But as soon as I close out Terminal/Konsole (I'm on KDE Plasma/Kubuntu) and open it back up, the custom theme is gone?! I thought all that stuff with the VIM file WAS to save it. But it didn't save it. There is a VIM file in my Home folder now. And it says all the stuff your screen says (obviously edited to work for my system though). But is there is some setting in Konsole I need to change to make the custom terminal show up now? This is SOO frustrating, but I'm SOO close. I just need that last little bit of help please. Thank you
@@techtimefly Don't worry about it. I got help on my Linux forum I'm on often. A very nice individual showed me exactly what I needed to do and I got it done. I think a major problem was: I had no idea your video was for people using Windows, not Linux. It took me a few days and 10-14 hrs of messing around trying to get this to work on my Linux machine to realize this. Very frustrating. If I could offer a suggestion, put WINDOWS in your title of the video and in the first sentence of the description. It says nothing of Oh My Posh for Windows in the title and the sixth & seventh words in the description say "Linux Terminal." So that threw me off big time and could have saved me a ton of headache if the description and title had the words Windows in it. Having said that, your video was the most helpful of the few amount of videos on YT about how to use Oh My Posh to change your terminal to a custom theme. Between your video and the Oh My Posh website tutorial, I eventually figured it all out and finally got the custom terminal I wanted to use to work. Then it took another day or so to figure out how to save it. It's a lot different then the directions you have. But again, that's because you're on a Windows computer, but going back and fourth to a Linux Terminal. Which totally threw me off. But thank you for making the video! For the most part, very helpful and now I have what I want! Best
@@jollygreen68 Glad you got it resolved. In my video I’m using Ubuntu Linux but on WSL on Windows. I know ubuntu used bash by default for the shell. Oh My Posh is slightly different depending on your shell (I haven’t used KDE). I appreciate constructive feedback on the video and recommended clarity that is needed in the description.
