powerline-status

Mon 07 September 2015

Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile. Documentation https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Bash prompt

Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc or /etc/bash.bashrc:

if [ -f `which powerline-daemon` ]; then
    powerline-daemon -q

    export POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1
    export POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1
    export POWERLINE_PATH=$(python -c 'import pkgutil; print pkgutil.get_loader("powerline").filename' 2>/dev/null)

    if [[ "$POWERLINE_PATH" != "" ]]; then
        source ${POWERLINE_PATH}/bindings/bash/powerline.sh
    fi
fi

Configuration

  • Copy the set of default configuration into a local config dir: 
mkdir ~/.config/powerline
cp -R ${POWERLINE_PATH}/config_files/* ~/.config/powerline

Configuration examples

  • config.json
{
    "common": {
        "term_truecolor": false
    },
    "ext": {
        "shell": {
            "colorscheme": "default",
            "theme": "myshell",
            "local_themes": {
                "continuation": "continuation",
                "select": "select"
            }
        }
    }
}
  • myshell.json
{
    "segments": {
        "left": [
                    {
                            "function": "powerline.segments.shell.mode"
                    },
                    {
                            "function": "powerline.segments.common.net.hostname",
                            "priority": 10
                    },
                    {
                            "function": "powerline.segments.common.env.user",
                            "priority": 30
                    },
                    {
                            "function": "powerline.segments.common.env.virtualenv",
                            "priority": 50
                    },
                    {
                            "function": "powerline.segments.shell.cwd",
                            "priority": 10
                    },
                    {
                            "function": "powerline.segments.shell.jobnum",
                            "priority": 20
                    },
                    {
                            "function": "powerline.segments.shell.last_pipe_status",
                            "priority": 10
                    },
                    {
                            "function": "powerline.segments.common.vcs.branch",
                            "priority": 40
                    }
                ]
    }
}

For detailed information on configuring Powerline:Configuration

Uninstall

To uninstall Powerline run the following commands in terminal:

$ sudo pip uninstall powerline

and remore references to powerline from config files

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