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Customizing Terminal in Mac

Harshit Yadav edited this page Feb 25, 2023 · 2 revisions

Customizing my Terminal in Mac

Step 1 : Downloading ohmyzsh

  • Since introduction of macOs Catalina , zsh is the default login shell and interactive shell
  • Oh My Zsh is opensource framework for terminal configuration that has loads of themes and plugins.

Step 2 : Setup the .zhrc

  • .zhrc is the file that contains the script that gets executed when we start new zsh shell
  • "rc" in zhrc stands for the (run command)
  • open ~/.zshrc to open the .zshrc file in root folder
  • If there is permission error run command chmode +x ~/.zshrc

Step 3 : Set the Theme

  • To set the theme powerlevel10k
  • Add the theme in the .zshrc file and restart the terminal

Step 4 : Set Background Image

  • In the mac terminal setting page set the background image of choice

Step 5 : Add auto complete plugin