Setup Zsh + Powerline on Solus

Have you asked yourself ? What is Zsh ? And why should I use it ? If yes, I will answer you briefly.

The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended Bourne shell with a large number of improvements, including some features of Bash, ksh, and tcsh.

Zsh Features

• The z-command: With the z command, you can navigate to a frequently/recently visited directory just by typing z , followed by the directory name. 
• Auto-completion: You can just type the command, followed by -, then hit tab. This action will then immediately display all of the available options for that command.  
• Auto-correction: In the Z shell, if you make an innocent typo while writing a file location, for example, spell correction is built-in and will automatically detect the typo. 
• Color customization: Zsh add color highlighting to directories. Additionally, the font-weight will be slightly bolder. This is extremely helpful to see what’s a file and what’s a directory.
  

And Many Other features : Read more on this link : Z_shell Features Wikipedia.
If you are using Solus and you decided to switch your shell from bash to Zsh. Follow me as I will show you how to Setup Zsh + Powerline on Solus.

How to Setup Zsh + Powerline on Solus?

Setup Zsh

• Install Zsh: 

sudo eopkg it zsh{codeBox}

• Change shell: 

sudo chsh -s /bin/zsh $(whoami){codeBox}

• Log out and back in again for the change to take effect.
• A configuration dialog will be showed up when you open the terminal so read the instruction carefully to configure it depending on your preferences.
• After setting up Zsh let’s make our shell more powerful by installing Powerline.
  

Setup Powerline

• Install Powerline:

sudo eopkg it powerline powerline-fonts{codeBox}

• Add powerline-daemon -q to the zshrc file :
  

echo "powerline-daemon -q" >> ~/.zshrc{codeBox}

• Add source /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh to the zshrc file:

echo "source /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc {codeBox}

• Close the terminal & relaunch it.

Enjoy Zsh & Powerline 👊.