Customize

The standard initialization sets Oh My Posh' default theme. This configuration is downloaded and kept up-to-date with Oh My Posh' version every time the shell starts. To change/alter the configuration, you need to add the --config command-line option to change the configuration to use a specific file.

Get inspiration

The best place to get started is by looking at the themes, as these are predefined configurations to use/alter. To change to for example the jandedobbeleer theme, alter the Oh My Posh init line to the following (assuming you downloaded the configuration file to your user's home folder):

powershell

oh-my-posh init pwsh --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json | Invoke-Expression

Once altered, reload your profile for the changes to take effect.

. $PROFILE

cmd

oh-my-posh.lua

load(io.popen('oh-my-posh init cmd --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json'):read("*a"))()

Once altered, restart cmd for the changes to take effect.

zsh

eval "$(oh-my-posh init zsh --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json)"

Once altered, reload your profile for the changes to take effect.

exec zsh

bash

eval "$(oh-my-posh init bash --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json)"

Once altered, reload your profile for the changes to take effect.

exec bash

fish

oh-my-posh init fish --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json | source

Once altered, reload your config for the changes to take effect.

. ~/.config/fish/config.fish

nu

warning

Oh My Posh requires Nushell >= 0.60.0

Edit $nu.configuration/path and add the following lines at the bottom.

oh-my-posh init nu --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json

source ~/.oh-my-posh.nu

If you want to save the initialization script elsewhere, replace the lines above with these:

oh-my-posh init nu --config ~/.jandedobbeleer.omp.json --print | save /mylocation/myscript.nu

source /mylocation/myscript.nu

Once altered, restart nu shell for the changes to take effect.

wsl

When using oh-my-posh in Windows and the WSL, know that you can share your theme with the WSL by pointing to a theme in your Windows user's home folder.

Inside the WSL, you can find your Windows user's home folder here: /mnt/c/Users/<WINDOWSUSERNAME>.

remote config

The --config flag can accept either a local filepath or a remotely hosted config file.

For example, the following is a valid --config flag:

--config 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/jandedobbeleer.omp.json'

Export the current theme

Maybe there's a theme you like, but you don't fancy the colors. Or, maybe there's a segment you want to tweak/add, or replace some of the icons with a different one. Whatever the case, read through available options first, by starting with the configuration guide.

You can export the current theme (default, or set via --config) to the format you like (json or toml) which can be used to tweak and store as your own custom theme.

oh-my-posh config export --output ~/.mytheme.omp.json