Make Your PowerShell Posh & Colorful

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Do you want to make your PowerShell prompt colorful? Please read this article to make your PowerShell Terminal colorful and Git supported. I will use oh-my-posh git prompt engine to make my PowerShell colorful.

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🎉Installing Posh Git

Run on admin PowerShell

Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser

If you are using PowerShell 7 then use below script to install posh-git

PowerShellGet\\Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser -AllowPrerelease -Force

Installing Oh My Posh

Run on admin PowerShell

Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser

If you are using PowerShell 7 then use below script to install oh-my-posh

Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser -AllowPrerelease -Force

🎨 PowerShell Theme

Browse All existing themes

View themes in GitHub

Get-PoshThemes

Here are some top listed Nerd Fonts

Setting a Theme

Run on admin PowerShell to setup agnoster theme.

Set-PoshPrompt -Theme agnoster

You can setup custom theme as well learn more…

Now you can see colors are coming 😃 However, we have to fix the fonts I will explain next that. For Now lets make this colors as our default in PowerShell. Follow me in next steps.

💯 Make PowerShell Theme Permanent

Notice, once you close this PowerShell and open new then colors will go away. In order to make this permanent you must update the profile of PowerShell.

Check Profile Exists

Most of the time we don’t have any profile

Run test-path $profile if this returns False then you must create new one.

Create new PowerShell Profile

Run

New-Item -path $profile -type file –force

Notice new profile file created it is empty now.

Setting Default PowerShell Colors

Now open PowerShell profile file and paste below code to setup default colors. Save and close the file.

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

Close and reopen PowerShell terminal to see the effects.

🆎 Fixing Fonts

Notice our PowerShell shows lots of ? because we are missing required fonts.

Lets fix them.

Which Fonts I need?

Oh my Posh was designed to use Nerd Fonts. Nerd Fonts are popular fonts that are patched to include icons.

Download Nerd Fonts

On windows machine go to the link and download your favorite fonts.
Right click on the specific font face & “Install for all users”. Check the GIF for clarification where I’m using the 3270 Nerd Font face.

Set PowerShell Fonts

Open PowerShell
Right Click Properties next go to font Tab.
Search for 3270Medium Nerd Font and select ok.

Now open new PowerShell Terminal and enjoy your brand new colorful theme.

🥇Changing PowerShell Theme

Select New Theme

First browse all themes and select yours one.

I am going to select jandedobbeleer theme this time.

Set new Theme As Default

Now open the PowerShell profile and update the theme name.

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

All done 🎉 Enjoy your new theme 😃

VS Code PowerShell

Apply Posh Theme

Open user settings in json and paste below code.

"terminal.external.osxExec": "iTerm.app",
"terminal.integrated.cursorBlinking": true,
"terminal.integrated.enableBold": true,
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'MesloLGL NF'", 👈
"terminal.integrated.fontSize": 14,
"terminal.integrated.rightClickCopyPaste": true,

If you are using Fira Code then change the fontFamily accordingly.

Using Microsoft Terminal

Download the Microsoft Terminal and open the settings on JSON and update the FontFace like below.

    "profiles":
    {
        "defaults":
        {
            // Put settings here that you want to apply to all profiles.
            "fontFace": "MesloLGL NF"
        },
        ...
    }

References

https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/upgrading/
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/now-is-the-time-to-make-a-fresh-new-windows-terminal-profilesjson
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/how-to-make-a-pretty-prompt-in-windows-terminal-with-powerline-nerd-fonts-cascadia-code-wsl-and-ohmyposh

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