Pengwin: Implement friendlier zsh and fish prompts in default install.

[sirredbeard]

We may need to include friendlier default zsh and fish prompts.

[kbrock84]

Maybe create a simple wlinux theme without icons for each and install it during the zsh and fish install scripts.

Either that or find one for each without icons and install that.

The icons show up nicely once you switch to something other than cmd.exe (hyper in my case)

[jasperweiss]

zsh doesn't work at all for me. Any command results in a permission denied

[kbrock84]

@Bodup I believe that would be a separate issue. I recommend using the Bug Report template in the Issue Templates. I didn't see an issue for this when i searched.

[patrick330602]

Alternatively, we can provide installation for nerd fonts from wlinux-setup or as @kbrock84 says, provide a theme without icon. However, this means we shouldn't use the default installation scripts for oh-my-zsh or oh-my-fish, we need a manual installation for Oh My Fish. oh my zsh have a manual way of installing which could be helpful.

[kbrock84]

I love the nerd font idea if you can get it to work. I've struggled with this from the Linux side. Unless you're using X you will need to install them on windows as well so it can be used in whatever terminal emulator. At that point it's up to the user to select it.

[kbrock84]

Also see Microsoft/WSL/issues/1288

And Microsoft/console/issues/90

[fonnesbeck]

Any headway on this? I assume most folks just use bash.

[crramirez]

Fix: https://github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/pengwin-setup/pull/175

The problem happens when oh-my-zsh or oh-my-fish are installed. Their default theme uses special characters. To fix that an easy solution is to use another theme. I found that bira looks good and doesn't use special characters, at least in my tests.

To fix:

Fish:

omf install bira

Zsh:

sed -i 's/ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"/ZSH_THEME="bira"/' "${HOME}/.zshrc"

Regards