Powerline is a “statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, fish, tmux, IPython, Awesome, i3 and Qtile”. It looks this cool (this is the most simply form):
In combination with ZSH, it becomes an extremely powerful -and beautiful- tool.
To quickly install just Powerline for the bash:
sudo apt install powerline powerline-fonts
Add the following at the end of ~/.bashrc:
# Powerline if [ -f /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh ]; then powerline-daemon -q POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1 POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1 source /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh fi
Sorting the fonts:
mkdir -p ~/.fonts
wget https://github.com/powerline/fonts/raw/master/LiberationMono/Literation%20Mono%20Powerline.ttf -O ~/.fonts/Liberation\ Mono\ Powerline.ttf
wget https://github.com/powerline/fonts/raw/master/LiberationMono/Literation%20Mono%20Powerline%20Bold.ttf -O ~/.fonts/Liberation\ Mono\ Powerline\ Bold.ttf
wget https://github.com/powerline/fonts/raw/master/LiberationMono/Literation%20Mono%20Powerline%20Italic.ttf -O ~/.fonts/Liberation\ Mono\ Powerline\ Italic.ttf
wget https://github.com/powerline/fonts/raw/master/LiberationMono/Literation%20Mono%20Powerline%20Bold%20Italic.ttf -O ~/.fonts/Liberation\ Mono\ Powerline\ Bold\ Italic.ttf
fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts
Now, reload the terminal:
source ~/.bashrc
Done!