The new Windows Terminal has a lot of new capabilities, like multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine and much more. Combined with WSL2, zsh shell and powerlevel10k brings the terminal experience to a whole new level.
- Install WSL2
- Install Windows Terminal
I used a modified version of the One Half Dark color scheme. For my complete configuration check the settings.json file.
- Install oh-my-zsh
Once Windows Terminal is installed run
sudo apt-get install zsh
To install oh-my-zsh run
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
Restart the terminal for the changes to take effect
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Install Meslo Nerd Font
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Install and configure Powerlevel10k
Powerlevel10k is a theme for zsh with loads of customizations. To install it run
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/powerlevel10k
Edit ~/.zshrc and change ZSH_THEME to
ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"
To get the same look like in my screenshots simply copy the content of my .zshrc and .p10k.zsh files.
For a completely new configuration run the wizard
p10k configure
Horizontal split pane with PowerShell
WSL2, PowerShell and PowerShell Core all in one terminal
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