+++ title = "Powerline Shell Prompt" lastmod = "2017-07-22T16:28:23+03:00" +++ # Powerline Shell Prompt [Powerline](https://github.com/powerline) is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile. ## Installation Powerline has two components, the plugin system itself ([powerline](https://dev.solus-project.com/source/powerline/)) and the fonts ([powerline-fonts](https://dev.solus-project.com/source/powerline-fonts/)). Both are available in the Software Center or via eopkg in a terminal: ``` bash sudo eopkg it powerline powerline-fonts ``` ## Shell Setup Note: this is setup per-user. ``` bash echo "source /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh" >> ~/.bashrc ```