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What it styles

Slatewave for Powerlevel10k ships as a single slatewave.p10k.zsh config file you source from your .zshrc after p10k itself loads. It lays out the prompt to match the Slatewave for Oh My Posh theme so the visual rhythm stays the same when you switch shells:

• Two-line frame — ╭─ opens the prompt, ╰─❯$ closes it on the next line, both in teal
• Left segments — OS icon, SSH context, current directory, git status, virtualenv, java version
• Right segments — last command's execution time, battery, CPU load (1-min), RAM, time
• Powerline glyphs between segments — for left, for right, / for sub-separators
• Transient prompt — old prompts collapse to a single line on enter, so scrollback stays clean

The palette mirrors vscode-slatewave and slatewave-omp exactly, so segments shaded the same role share the same hex value across editor, terminal, and prompt.

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Requirements

• Powerlevel10k 1.18.0+ — the theme uses truecolor #rrggbb foreground/background syntax that older p10k releases parse as 256-color names.
• A Nerd Font in your terminal — the powerline + diamond separators and segment icons (, , ) won't render without one. MesloLGS NF (p10k's recommendation) and Hack Nerd Font Mono are both verified to work.

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Installation

Via the Slatewave CLI

slatewave install powerlevel10k

The CLI fetches slatewave.p10k.zsh to ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.zsh and adds the source line to your .zshrc for you. slatewave uninstall powerlevel10k reverses both.

Manual

mkdir -p ~/.config/p10k
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlangleyjr/p10k-slatewave/main/slatewave.p10k.zsh \
  -o ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.zsh

Then add this line to your ~/.zshrc, after the line that sources p10k itself:

[[ -f ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.zsh ]] && source ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.zsh

A fresh .zshrc ends up looking like:

# powerlevel10k itself (this line is whatever your install method produces)
source /opt/homebrew/share/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme

# Slatewave on top — applies last so its assignments win
[[ -f ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.zsh ]] && source ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.zsh

Restart your shell or source ~/.zshrc to see the new prompt.

From a local clone

git clone https://github.com/kevinlangleyjr/p10k-slatewave
cp p10k-slatewave/slatewave.p10k.zsh ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.zsh

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Palette

Slatewave shares its palette with the companion themes. The colors used in the prompt:

	Hex	Tailwind	Role
	#e2e8f0	slate-200	OS icon / SSH text
	#94a3b8	slate-400	execution time, CPU/RAM idle
	#334155	slate-700	git loading background
	#1e293b	slate-800	deepest background
	#193549	—	contrast text on bright accent backgrounds (git, battery)
	#2c313a	—	secondary surface (path, time)
	#3e4451	—	raised surface (os, ssh, sysinfo)
	#5eead4	teal-300	signature — frame, path text, prompt char, time
	#0e7490	cyan-700	battery charging / charged
	#ecfeff	cyan-50	high-contrast text on cyan/amber
	#38bdf8	sky-400	git clean
	#fbbf24	amber-400	CPU warning
	#b45309	amber-700	battery discharging / low
	#fb7185	rose-400	git modified, CPU critical
	#ef5350	—	prompt char on non-zero exit

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Customize

Every value in slatewave.p10k.zsh is a plain typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_* assignment, so override individual entries by setting them again below the source line in your .zshrc:

source ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.zsh

# Swap the time format from "3:04 PM" to ISO-ish "15:04"
typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_TIME_FORMAT='%D{%H:%M}'

# Drop the load segment from the right block
typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(
  command_execution_time
  battery
  ram
  time
)

To swap to a different segment set entirely (e.g. add kubecontext, aws, or node_version), copy the file to ~/.config/p10k/slatewave.p10k.local.zsh, edit POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS / POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS, and source the local copy instead. The Slatewave colors carry over automatically — p10k applies whatever *_BACKGROUND and *_FOREGROUND are set for each segment, regardless of which segments are in the prompt list.

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Slatewave family

One palette. Every tool.

• Editors — VSCode · JetBrains · Xcode · Sublime Text · Zed · Neovim · NvChad · Helix
• Terminals — Alacritty · Ghostty · iTerm2 · kitty · Warp · WezTerm · Windows Terminal
• Prompts — Oh My Posh · Starship
• Multiplexer — tmux
• CLI — bat · delta · LSD · btop
• Notes — Obsidian · Logseq · MarkEdit · Anytype
• Launchers — Alfred · Raycast
• Chat — Slack

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License

WTFPL — do whatever you want with this.