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It allows you to customize your terminal prompt from a set of default styles.

If you are unfamiliar with Powerlevel10k, the quick way to explain it to you is saying that it's a theme for zsh. Choosing a decent theme for the terminal.Adding the font to Windows Terminal by using Nerd Fonts.Remember that I said earlier in this article, that the Windows Terminal was pretty simple? Well, it's now time to pimp our terminal and change how it looks! We will do a few things: Customizing your terminal to look beautiful! Pimp my terminal - Themes, Icons, Profiles Now that we have the zsh shell and oh-my-zsh installed, we can go to the next step.

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We can install oh-my-zsh by running the command: sh -c "$(curl -fsSL )" It comes with more functions, helpers, plugins, themes and much more. This command will install the zsh shell, then we can install oh-my-zsh which is zsh on steroids.

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Open the Windows Terminal (if you haven't it open already) and run the following command: sudo apt update & sudo apt install zsh -y The next thing we need to do is installing the zsh shell in our WSL. Now every time we run the terminal, the default profile will be the WSL one.

Paste the WSL guid inside the defaultProfile setting.

Scroll down to find the guid for the WSL.

We can change the default profile by opening the terminal menu (press the down arrow) and select settings. Since I am going to be using WSL all the time, I want this to be the default. When you run the Windows Terminal, you can see that the Terminal opens the Windows PowerShell by default.

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You can also download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store. You can read more about the features of the Windows Terminal on the official documentation website. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colours, backgrounds, and shortcut key bindings. Windows Terminal is a modern terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It also comes with integrated support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux, Windows Powershell, Azure cloud shell and the Command Prompt. The terminal itself it's pretty good and allows you to have different tabs on it.

It's not using my favourite shell zsh shell.

Pretty simple theme (a grey text on a black background).The Windows Terminal is great, but has a few problems: On that post, I've mentioned how I've been using the Windows Terminal as my main terminal. I've wrote a quick post about Moving to Windows from a Mac. Home Books Digital Garden Store Contact Setting up Windows Terminal