On 5/27/20 9:06 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hello! > > Do we have Debian devs here who have pimped their shell heavily with custom > prompts, colors, command line fonts, shell window title hacks, perhaps > using zsh etc? Have you written blogs about you experiences, can you share > some good reads (with screenshots) of what you have done? > > I've read a bit on zsh and powerline and the like, but I am annoyed that > all those blog posts are quite superficial and do not mention security, > interoperability or performance aspects. Frankly any blog post that > recommends cloning random repos or even worse, running wget | sh something > gives me chills. > > Some above average posts are > https://linuxhint.com/install_zsh_shell_ubuntu_1804/ and > https://www.hildeberto.com/2018/02/oh-my-zsh.html > > I'd very much want to read about some more knowledgeable experiences. > > > Tips? > > > Some might react that bells and whistles is useless and real unix beards > only run plain bash, but I think that good text prompts have a potential to > increase productivity. And anyway I don't want those MacOS users to claim > that their shells would be in any way better than what I can have in Debian > ;) >
That's an interesting topic. In general I am pretty happy with this config: https://salsa.debian.org/mestia/debbuildenv It uses screen + zsh and color themes are adjusted for a bright terminal. I use screen on the primary console on my work workstation and ssh from it to all other machines which usually have plain bash. If I need a session for something more advanced I start screen with the same config on the remote machine, but keep separate terminal window, so I don't get the nested screens from the "primary" screen terminal. oh-my-zsh looks too heavvy for me. The main reason to use zsh in the setup above is the screen's status line. I didn't manage to customize it good enough with bash. Best, Alex
