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I can recommend powerlevel10k with instant prompt enabled. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by sva_ · 2026-03-26 · in Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k?tab=readme-ov-file#...

comment by mcc1ane · 2025-07-20 · in Speeding up my ZSH shell

I've used Powerlevel10k for ages ( https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k ), but it seems it's no longer actively developed / maintained. I think it's a lot cleaner, how I have it set up right now it shows some information like…

comment by Cthulhu_ · 2025-06-24 · in Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

…a bit of functionality, and is more performant in my experience, giving me the best of both worlds. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by JoBrad · 2024-01-23 · in Oh My Zsh

…ohmyzsh with powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k[0] for years though recently i've settled on fish [1] [0] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k [1] https://fishshell.com/

comment by vorticalbox · 2024-01-23 · in Oh My Zsh

…6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab 7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Al

comment by ireallywantthat · 2023-08-26 · in Fish – A friendly interactive shell

I use powerlevel10k to speed up my omz start time. Been great. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by ifaxmycodetok8s · 2022-11-23 · in Sweet Shell: With Oh-My-Zsh, SpaceVim, Starship, True Color, and Demo Mode

…makes for a fast powerline implementation, especially with instant prompt enabled. [0] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by kekebo · 2022-11-06 · in Helix: Post-Modern Text Editor

…powerlevel10k because it makes adding custom sections to my shell prompt really straightforward. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k terraform because I have a job wrangling it lol asdf because it manages versions of software for me…

comment by bloopernova · 2022-09-23 · in Software I’m thankful for (2021)

…use it for programming and all my terminals and haven't found a reason to bother with anything else https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k#meslo-nerd-font-pat... https://github.com/romkatv/dotfiles-public/blob/master/.loca...

comment by Larrikin · 2022-07-09 · in Programming Fonts

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k :)

comment by bloopernova · 2022-04-02 · in Useful Shell Prompt (2020)

…running zsh, I suggest using powerlevel10k[0]. It is stupid fast, and extremely customisable. [0] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by mkdirp · 2022-04-02 · in Useful Shell Prompt (2020)

…conclusion, that zsh is good enough for me and will be until something revolutionary happens. [1] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by sandreas · 2022-01-31 · in Ask HN: Oil or Fish Shell?

…felt the need to promote it on the web in a few years since they are all gainfully employed. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

comment by Larrikin · 2022-01-21 · in JetBrains Mono – the free and open-source typeface for developers

…shell prompts, often requiring patched fonts. Something like powerlevel10k[0] or starship[1] [0]: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k [1]: https://starship.rs/

comment by cturtle · 2022-01-15 · in Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal

…but the fastest I've found is zim-fw[2] which produces acceptable start times for me[3]. [0] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/ [1] https://github.com/tarjoilija/zgen [2] https://github.com/zimfw/zimfw/ [3]…

comment by kekebo · 2021-11-25 · in The fish shell is amazing

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k claims to do this (and other things) while remaining extremely fast (apparently the dev was aiming to keep it below the threshold of human perception; not 100% sure that extends to all features or…

comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2021-10-20 · in s/bash/zsh/g

…up disk space. jq is also super nice when you have to parse json data. I also like powerlevel10k: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by fossuser · 2021-07-29 · in Command line tools for productive programmers

Last time I checked it was slower than https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k , because it doesn't decouple the rendering of the prompt from the background processes collecting status information. Ergo no instant prompt. Also, some other…

comment by eurg · 2021-02-18 · in Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind

…on top of being the best file manager I've ever used. [0]: https://github.com/zdharma/zinit [1]: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k [2]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta [3]: https://github.com/jarun/nnn

comment by Seirdy · 2020-06-23 · in Favorite CLI Tools

…you're referring to and it was really straight forward and clear. The project is a theme for zsh https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k#configuration-wizar...

comment by strangelove026 · 2020-04-28 · in Tmux for Mere Mortals

If you mean the prompt, that's p10k which is also awesome: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by saheljalal · 2020-04-12 · in Nostromo: CLI for Building Powerful Aliases

…the fact that you need to install fonts which I can't get working on some terminals (urxvt). [1] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by awake · 2019-09-19 · in Linux Terminal Goods

…rust-based libraries, that could be even faster. Would be interested in a performance comparison. https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

comment by nwah1 · 2019-09-17 · in Starship – a cross-shell prompt written in Rust

…in https://www.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/b1xxuj/abusing_zsh_par... . There is also information on https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/ that probably didn't exist when you've discovered Powerlevel10k.

comment by romka2 · 2019-03-16 · in Powerlevel10k – a 10x faster fork of Powerlevel9k