fish powerline on ubuntu the easy way

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fish_powerline_ubuntu_the_easy_way.md

You don't have to install powerline and fonts from github to get fish with powerline. The Ubuntu repo already has some packages. Just install them with apt.

Tested on Ubuntu 17.04

apt install fish powerline

This pulls in fonts-powerline python-powerline python-psutil python3-powerline

add the following lines to ~/.config/fish/config.fish

set fish_function_path $fish_function_path "/usr/share/powerline/bindings/fish"
source /usr/share/powerline/bindings/fish/powerline-setup.fish
powerline-setup

and then start a new instance of fish by typing fish

Presumably if you have a different set up or distro, you can use grep/find to get the above information.

# these commands work with bash or fish
cd /
find -name fish 2>&1 | grep bindings
# which returns
./usr/share/powerline/bindings/fish
# and then
find -name '*.fish' 2>&1 | grep -e 'powerline-setup'
# returns
./usr/share/powerline/bindings/fish/powerline-setup.fish

Thank you. Works on Arch without the find/grep.

it works(ish) on my system.
arch
termite

though it takes precedence over my actual themes, i get a base powerline bar, though when changing themes, it does not.

how do I manage that?

Thank you
This guide is working perfectly to me.

Thanks, I've been working on it for 2 hours and here are 2 lines of code and it's done