Install Powerline-Shell on Ubuntu

Powerline-shell-install-ubuntu.md

Environment

• Kubuntu 16.04.2 TLS

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial

• Shell environment: Bash
• Terminal application : Konsole
• Default console font: Monospace

References

• https://github.com/banga/powerline-shell
• https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation/linux.html#fontconfig
• https://gist.github.com/tos-kamiya/f7c36dc8ffd2d0aaec43

Installation Instructions

1) Download and install Powerline-Shell

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/banga/powerline-shell.git
cd cd powerline-shell/
cp config.py.dist config.py
./install.py 

2) Install required fonts

wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf
wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf
mv PowerlineSymbols.otf ~/.fonts/
mkdir -p ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/
fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts/

3) Bash setup

nano ~/.bashrc

Add the following to the end of the file

# Powerline shell
function _update_ps1() {
    PS1="$(~/powerline-shell/powerline-shell.py --cwd-mode dironly --cwd-max-depth 1 --cwd-max-dir-size 50 --mode patched $? 2> /dev/null)"
}
# Apply PowerShell '_update_ps1' function 
export PROMPT_COMMAND="_update_ps1; $PROMPT_COMMAND"

4) Apply changes

Logout and login.

Note: if it you haven't get the proper look, change the terminal profile font

is that working with Ubuntu 17.10 ?

cd cd powerline-shell/?

cp config.py.dist config.py ?

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