My Awesome Terminal on MacBook

My Awesome Terminal on MacBook

Currently, I am using a MacBook Pro as my laptop for my daily work. And to make myself more comfortable in the working moment.

I have the habit of stimulating my brain to focus on my work. One of the ways, I usually use to decorate my workstation, and terminal on my MacBook helps me to do that.

My custom terminal should have:

• Attractive Interface
• Auto-Complete

This page was composed with the target to help me improve my writing skills and share you the way I configure my Terminal.

Table of Contents

Instead of using the default Terminal on MacOSX, I installed iTerm2 and use it in my Daily work.

Iterm2 Link:

https://iterm2.com/documentation-one-page.html

Here is the original Iterm2 User Interface

And now, I do a couple of steps to make it more awesome. Original source page: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

Install these fonts:

• MesloLGS NF Regular.ttf
• MesloLGS NF Bold.ttf
• MesloLGS NF Italic.ttf
• MesloLGS NF Bold Italic.ttf

Install and setup ~/.zshrc

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

In cases, if you already configured your zshrc profile (For instance, you setup git/npm/python/java environment in your zshrc), you can get the message like:

“Found ~/.zshrc. Backing up to /Users/{your_profile}/zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh Using the Oh My Zsh template file and adding it to ~/.shrc.”

It’s meant that your old zshrc profile was backed up to the new folder: zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh

In order to keep the existing configuration, you can copy the value on zshrc.pre-oh-my-zsh to new ~/.zshrc

Install zsh-autosuggestions and Zsh-syntax-highlighting plugin on ZSH

• Run 2 below commands:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

git clone [https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git) ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

• Add zsh-autosuggestions and Zsh-syntax-highlighting  into config plugins of zshrc profile

Open ~/.zshrc file by this command: vi ~/.zshrc

Install powerlevel10k

Run this command:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ~/powerlevel10k
echo 'source ~/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme' >>~/.zshrc

Restart your iterm2 application

You can restart your iterm2 by: quite your iterm2 and open it again.

You can follow the setup wizard of powerlevel10k

• Select Yes to install more Font

Follow the hint, we Quick your iTerm and open it again.

• After you open iterm2 again, you can see Setup Winzard and follow to choose proper options as below:

Then, you can see the result in your iterm2 like below:

Configure again your terminal

You can configure again your terminal setting by running this command:

p10k configure

And then you can follow the wizard to set up again the setting configuration on your terminal

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