We can easily make our terminal become powerful and beautiful. But we also can do it on the Windows Terminal on the WLS Ubuntu.

Go to windows wsl

Typed the wsl command to go to the Windows Linux system

wsl
wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04

Install zsh

The powerlevel10k package is based on the zsh package, so we have to install the zsh first.

sudo apt-get install zsh

Install Oh My Zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install Nerd fonts

We can use the powerlevel10k recommend fonts MesloLGS NF to display our terminal fonts

• MesloLGS NF Regular.ttf
• MesloLGS NF Bold.ttf
• MesloLGS NF Italic.ttf
• MesloLGS NF Bold Italic.ttf

After downloading the font on Windows. You can click the font file and click the Install button on the top to install the fonts.

Setting Windows Terminal Fonts

You can press the Shift + Ctrl + , (comma) to open the setting on the Windows Terminal. Or you can click the right mouse to show the menu, and click Setting items to show the setting page on the Windows Terminal.

Click the Defaults tabs on the left side, and click the Appearance on the right side.

Setting the Font face to the MesloLGS NF. And click the Save button the save the changes.

Download powerlevel10k to Oh My Zsh themes

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

Setting ZSH themes to powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k

Edit the ~/.zshrc file. And set the ZSH_THEME variable to the powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k

vim ~/.zshrc

ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"

After update the zsh themes variable, you have to re-login the wsl to activate the zsh setting

Setting powerlevel10k

Run the p10k configure command to setup the themes that you want on the powerlevel10k

p10k configure

After setting powerlevel10k finish, you can start to use a powerful and beautiful Windows Terminal. And you can run the p10k configure command to change the powerlevel10k themes anytime

Hint

If you haven’t set powerlevel10k themes yet. It will show the setting hint when you open the Windows Terminal on wsl every time.

If you want to close the hint message. You can type the following command to close the hint.

echo 'POWERLEVEL9K_DISABLE_CONFIGURATION_WIZARD=true' >>! ~/.zshrc

Reference

• GitHub - romkatv/powerlevel10k: A Zsh theme
• Oh My Zsh - a delightful & open source framework for Zsh
• GitHub - ryanoasis/nerd-fonts: Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
• 【分享】Oh My Zsh + powerlevel10k 快速打造好看好用的 command line 環境 | by Holy | Medium
• 在 Windows 使用 WSL2 操作 Ubuntu 系統
• How to change default font face on Windows Terminal - Pureinfotech