There are 2 ways to install an iTerm theme (both go to the same configuration location):ĭirect way via keyboard shortcut: _ Launch iTerm 2. Screenshots below and in the screenshots directory.
#Dracula theme iterm2 windows#
It also includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty I use a theme called “Dracula” that doesn’t come pre-installed, however it’s on GitHub as well and can be downloaded from here.This is a set of color schemes for iTerm (aka iTerm2). The shell comes comes with preinstalled themes and how they look visually, you can see here. Now, we can install themes, to make the interface a bit more pleasant. oh-my-zsh, viewable by ls -a and you can cd into it and then the “themes” folder and see the preloaded themes. Once cloned and installed, it will ask you to check for updates, press Y and continue, if all was successful, you would have your shell prompt changed to a green arrow.Ĭongrats, step 1 is done.
#Dracula theme iterm2 full#
If you are having issues with the install command, the full list of commands per platform is available here – Installing-ZSH.
For all of the steps below we’ll need Git installed: Installing ZshĪs it’s an open source project, so as you’ve probably guessed, it’s on GitHub. The guide below does assume you have superuser privileges. It supports native TMUX (Terminal Multiplexer) integration, which I’ll cover in a separate post. I’ll be doing the setup on a Macbook, where I have installed iTerm 2, I’d say this is the “must-have” terminal application for MacOS. It works fine on Solaris and AIX, however it does run into occasional hiccups when Tab is pressed twice for the directory list suggestions and a few other minor issues here and there. The first disclaimer I should make is that I’ve ran Zsh on Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Linux. So I decided to sit down and write a guide, for them and for my own future reference. Quite a few colleagues have asked me to help them replicate the setup I have on my machine. Here is a very interesting article on how the Zshell came to be from its creator – d’Oh My Zsh.
Double Tab after a cdcommand to get an interactive file list you can select from.Here is a short list of some of the features Zsh offers over BASH:
It’s an open-source shell, which adds quite a few features and opens the door to many more via plugins and themes. This is where Oh-my-Zsh (ZShell) comes in. After all, it’s just a command prompt, right? These two have improved over the years as well, but haven’t dramatically updated the user experience. Probably close second comes Ksh (KORN Shell). However, on the shell side, there is one that rules them all – BASH (Bourne Again SHell). They’ve advanced a lot over the years and allow for features such as multiple tabs, background transparency and plenty more. The terminal is the graphical user interface for the shell, it varies across various linux distributions and other Unix-based operating systems – Konsole for KDE, Gnome Terminal for Gnome, Terminal for MacOS, Xterm and many others. For anyone starting to dive into the UNIX world, the cornerstone of any distribution is the Terminal and Shell providing access to the heart of the system – the Kernel.
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