Setup Oh-My-Posh powerline on Windows 10

setup_windows_powerline.md

Update: official manual

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/custom-prompt-setup
• https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/windows
• https://zimmergren.net/making-windows-terminal-look-awesome-with-oh-my-posh/

Step

1. Open powershell in Admin mode then run Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

2. Open powershell (without admin) Installing Posh-Git and Oh-My-Posh. Open Powershell then run

   Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser
   Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser
   

3. Download and Install font from https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases (Release Zip file) (CascadiaCodePL.ttf and CascadiaMonoPL.ttf ) then in Windows Terminal go to Setting > Power Sehll > Appearance > Font face change font to Cascadia Code PL then click save I like Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font https://www.nerdfonts.com/, which has the font name CaskaydiaCove NF when configuring it in the Windows Terminal font settings.

4. In powershell run command notepad $profile to setup profile script. If you don't have any profile, notepad will ask to create new file. Then input below config to profile file

   Import-Module posh-git
   Import-Module oh-my-posh
   Set-PoshPrompt  -Theme paradox
   

   This imports the modules posh-git and oh-my-posh and sets the theme to Paradox every time we start PowerShell. There are many themes to choose from https://ohmyposh.dev/ (or from source https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh) or run Get-PoshThemes to display all theme on current Powershell

5. In vscode change setting search Font Family then put 'Cascadia Code PL' in font config or

   "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Cascadia Code PL",
   "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
     "PowerShell": {
       "source": "PowerShell",
       "icon": "terminal-powershell",
       "args": ["-NoLogo"]
     },
   },
   "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "PowerShell",
   

Theme Customize

1. Export current theme to json file

   oh-my-posh config export --output ~/.mytheme.omp.json
   

2. Customize json as you see fit. You can get the idea or example from https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/themes. Click on each theme's name to view json config.
3. Alter profile setting to load new theme. Replace Set-PoshPrompt -Theme paradox with oh-my-posh init pwsh --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json | Invoke-Expression. Profile file will look like this.

   Import-Module posh-git
   Import-Module oh-my-posh
   oh-my-posh init pwsh --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json | Invoke-Expression
   

4. Load new profile

   . $PROFILE