Terminal & Shell Setup (st & zsh)

My terminal emulator is st (simple terminal) from LukeSmith¹, and my shell is zsh (with ohmyzsh²).

Dependencies

dmenu
fzf³
pywal⁴

ohmyzsh

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# . start-proxy 1081 socks5h
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Then config or restore⁵ your ~/.zshrc file.

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dotfiles checkout ~/.zshrc

colors and themes

p10k

I use powerlevel10k⁶ as my zsh theme.

clone the repository:

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git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k
# for chinese users, recommend:
# git clone --depth=1 https://gitee.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

set ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k" in ~/.zshrc.
configure with p10k

Xresources and pywal

you can define your color scheme in ~/.Xresources file, and load it with xrdb ~/.Xresources.

Or you can let pywal generates and sets a colorscheme for you:

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#!/bin/sh

# We grab the wallpaper location from wal's cache so
# that this works even when a directory is passed.
image_path="${1:-"$(< "${HOME}/.cache/wal/wal")"}"

# -n tells =wal= to skip setting the wallpaper.
wal -n -i "$image_path"
feh --no-fehbg --bg-fill "$image_path"

This is a script⁷ to set my wallpaper and color scheme from an image: wal-feh wallpaper.png.

And I put exec --no-startup-id ~/bin/wal-feh in my ~/.config/i3/config to autostart it.

fzf

Install fzf, then put this in your ~/.zshrc:

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source /usr/share/fzf/key-bindings.zsh
source /usr/share/fzf/completion.zsh

zsh-autosuggestions

Fish-like fast/unobtrusive autosuggestions for zsh.

clone the repository:

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git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

add the plugin to the plugins list inside the ~/.zshrc file.

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plugins=(
    # other plugins...
    zsh-autosuggestions
)

keybindings

alt-l: follow urls
alt-y: copy urls
alt-o: copy output of a command
alt-j/k/d/u: scroll down/up/faster-down/faster-up
alt-c/v: copy/paste
Ctrl+t: list files+folders in current directory (e.g., type git add, press Ctrl+t, select a few files using Tab, finally Enter)
Ctrl+r: search history commands
ESC+c: fuzzy change directory

st from Luke Smith ↩︎
Oh My Zsh is a delightful, open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration ↩︎
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder ↩︎
Pywal is a tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image. ↩︎
use ~~a bare git repository~~ stow to manage my dotfiles. ↩︎
Powerlevel10k is a theme for Zsh. It emphasizes speed, flexibility and out-of-the-box experience. ↩︎
my wal-feh script to set wallpaper and color scheme ↩︎