2.1 Install Pythonīecause Powerline is a Python app, we need to have Python and that too a proper version of Python. It makes the Terminal prompt look like below. Powerline is a Python app and is a status line plugin for vim, and provides status lines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile. Open Terminal > Preferences > Text and select the “Solarized Dark …” theme and click on “Default”.įrom now on, your Terminal should like below.At this point, you have the Theme installed into your Terminal.Note: If you get a warning that this is from an unidentified developer, Right-click on the file and select “Open with” > Terminal option. Double click “Solarized Dark ansi.terminal”file - This is the specific Theme file for Terminal.app.This folder contains Theme for the terminal. Open the osx-terminal.app-colors-solarized folder.Scroll down and download the Theme (solarized.zip).right-click on the *.terminal file > “open with' > Terminal Simply open the *.terminal file to install it, i.e. Note: You can download various Themes (.terminal files) from this git repo. In this blog, I’ll add Solarized-Dark theme to our Terminal. Let’s download a Theme and add it to the Terminal. Terminal doesn’t provide all the cool and fancy themes that you see other developers use. The first obvious step is to enhance the Theme. Let’s go ahead and add Themes, fonts, and so on. OK, by default, when you have a new mac, your Terminal.app will look something like below. My Versions: Mac High Sierra git version 2.14.3 (Apple Git-98) Python 2.7.10 I’m not using ZSH or Hyper in this blog - I plan to write different blogs for them.ģ. This is for MacOS and for regular bash in the Terminal.app. Follow the steps carefully as any mistake will cause a lot of headaches.Ģ. So I thought I'd blog about it - hopefully it'll help you. It turns out, if you are using Mac, you’ll need to jump through a lot of hoops to get this working as many instructions are for linux, or are out of date. In this blog I’ll go over the steps to add Themes, Powerline, fonts, and powerline-gitstatus to make your regular Bash Terminal look beautiful and useful as shown in the picture above.

Git bash shell for mac