🚀 Levelled up shell for Network Engineers 🚀
This repo expands on the tmux-for-neteng by moving from bash to zsh, adding the popular oh-my-zsh plugin and, adding the powerlevel10k theme for a speedier and modern looking shell.
While I haven't used it myself due to being a Windows user, this should pair very nicely with the new ghostty terminal emulator!
Just click the "Open in GitHub Codespaces" button up the top! Should see a terminal that looks similar to the below:
Follow the below step by step guide to set this up on your own machine:
- Install zsh (https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH)
- Install Oh-my-zsh (https://ohmyz.sh/#install) and follow the prompts
- Install the powerlevel10k theme and the zsh-autocomplete plugin
apt-get install zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autocomplete
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k- In your
~/.zshrcfile, change the ZSH_THEME and set your plugins of choice
Builtin plugins available at https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Plugins if you want to further personally customise
ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"
plugins=(
python
golang
zsh-autocomplete
colored-man-pages
)- There are some additional steps depending on your disrto in the zsh-autocomplete plugin to follow
- Restart zsh with
source ~/.zshrc, this should now display the powerlevel10k configuration wizard which you can run through with your own personal preferences
If you do not like your powerlevel10k look, you can always run the configuration wizard again with
p10k configure. My TMUX theme is aligned with the classic prompt style
- If you do not want to use TMUX then you are now good to go! Two more things I add for my own personal comfort are below
# Add to your .zshrc towards the bottom (but not on the last line)
# Make your prompt start at the bottom of the screen on startup
print ${(pl:$LINES::\n:):-}
# Cap the maximum number of lines for autocomplete to 6
zstyle ':autocomplete:*:*' list-lines 6Pretty much every modern linux distribution these days has tmux installed by default. If not simply install tmux using your distributions package manager.
To use my tmux configuration, simply copy and paste the contents of the .tmux.conf file into your home directories ~/.tmux.conf
TMUX should automatically start when you SSH into your host if you have copied the aliases.zsh file into your setup.
If not you can simply execute tmux -u attach -t COMMITCONFIRMED || tmux -u new -s COMMITCONFIRMED replacing "COMMITCONFIRMED" with whatever name you want at the bottom.
Keybindings I've used as a personal preference, you can change this if you want in your own .tmux.conf file to suit your own preferences. Mousewheel scrolling and clicking of the tabs also should work.
| Keybind | Description |
|---|---|
Ctrl+Space + c |
Create new window |
Ctrl+Space + Ctrl+Space |
Switch between current and last window (can hold down Ctrl) |
Ctrl+Space + 1-9 |
Switch to window # |
Ctrl+Space + [ |
Switch to scrollback mode, can use VIM bindings here to search, etc. Press Enter twice to exit |
Ctrl+Space + - |
Create a Horizontal Split |
Ctrl+Space + = |
Create a Vertial Split |
Alt+Arrow Keys |
Navigate between Split Panes |
Ctrl+Space + d |
Detach TMUX |
Ctrl+Space + r |
Reload TMUX config |
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