Tooltips

info

Due to limitations (or not having found a way just yet), this feature only works in fish, zsh, powershell and cmd (as of Clink v1.2.46+) for the time being.

Tooltip Demo

Tooltips are segments that are rendered as a right-aligned prompt while you're typing certain keywords. They behave similarly to the other segments when it comes to how and when they are shown so you can tweak them to act and look like you want. The key difference is that they can be invoked using tips which are the commands you are typing. Due to the possibility of the use of an alias, you can define for which keyword the segment should be rendered.

Configuration#

You need to extend or create a custom theme with your tooltips. For example:

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/schema.json",
  "blocks": [
      ...
  ],
  "tooltips": [
    {
      "type": "git",
      "tips": ["git", "g"],
      "style": "diamond",
      "foreground": "#193549",
      "background": "#fffb38",
      "leading_diamond": "",
      "trailing_diamond": "",
      "template": "{{ .HEAD }}{{ if .Staging.Changed }} \uF046 {{ .Staging.String }}{{ end }}{{ if and (.Working.Changed) (.Staging.Changed) }} |{{ end }}{{ if .Working.Changed }} \uF044 {{ .Working.String }}{{ end }}",
      "properties": {
        "fetch_status": true,
        "fetch_upstream_icon": true
      }
    }
  ]
}

This configuration will render a right-aligned git segment when you type git or g followed by a space. A tip should not include any leading or trailing space but an interpolated one can be used, e.g., g s. Keep in mind that this is a blocking call, meaning that if the segment renders slow, you can't type until it's visible. Optimizations in this space are being explored.

Enable the feature#

powershell
zsh
fish

Import/invoke Oh My Posh in your $PROFILE and add the following line below:

Enable-PoshTooltips

For example:

# $PROFILE
oh-my-posh init pwsh --config ~\wildertheme.json | Invoke-Expression
Enable-PoshTooltips

Restart your shell or reload your $PROFILE using . $PROFILE for the changes to take effect.

Invoke Oh My Posh in .zshrc and add the following line below:

enable_poshtooltips

Restart your shell or reload .zshrc using exec zsh for the changes to take effect.

Invoke Oh My Posh in ~/.config/fish/config.fish and add the following line below:

enable_poshtooltips

Restart your shell or reload fish using exec fish for the changes to take effect.