legacy_options.md

March 15, 2018 · View on GitHub

Legacy Options

Slimline can be customized using a variety of environment variables. For an example on how to do so see the example.

Prompt Symbol

SLIMLINE_PROMPT_SYMBOL

Defines the symbol of the prompt. Default is ∙.

SLIMLINE_PROMPT_SYMBOL_COLOR_WORKING

Defines the color of the prompt when asynchronous tasks are running. Default is red.

SLIMLINE_PROMPT_SYMBOL_COLOR_READY

Defines the color of the prompt when all asynchronous tasks are finished. Default is white.

Current Working Directory

SLIMLINE_CWD_COLOR

Defines the color of the current working directory. Default is cyan.

SLIMLINE_CWD_ROOT_COLOR

Defines the color of the current working directory if it equals the root directory /. Default is red.

Exit Status

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_EXIT_STATUS

Defines whether the exit status is displayed if the exit code is not zero. Default is 1.

SLIMLINE_EXIT_STATUS_SYMBOL

Defines the symbol of the exit status glyph. Default is ↵.

SLIMLINE_EXIT_STATUS_COLOR

Defines the color of the exit status information. Default is red.

Execution Time

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_EXEC_TIME

Defines whether the runtime of a process is displayed if it exceeds the maximum execution time specified by the option below. Default is 1.

SLIMLINE_MAX_EXEC_TIME

Defines the maximum execution time of a process until its run time is displayed on exit. Default is 5 seconds.

SLIMLINE_EXEC_TIME_COLOR

Defines the color of the execution time. Default is yellow.

User and Host Info

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_USER_HOST_INFO

Defines whether the user@host part is displayed if the user differs from the default user or if connected to a ssh server. Default is 1.

SLIMLINE_USER_COLOR

Defines the color of the user. Default is green.

SLIMLINE_USER_ROOT_COLOR

Defines the color of the user if the user is root. Default is red.

SLIMLINE_HOST_COLOR

Defines the color of the host. Default is yellow.

SLIMLINE_DEFAULT_USER

Username to consider as the default user. By default this is the current effective user (i.e. the output of whoami)

AWS Profile Info

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_AWS_INFO

Defines whether value of AWS_PROFILE environment variable should be displayed. Default is 0.

SLIMLINE_AWS_COLOR

Defines the color of aws profile info. Default is blue.

Auto Correction

SLIMLINE_AUTOCORRECT_MISSPELLED_COLOR

Defines the color of the misspelled string for which is correction is proposed. Default is red.

SLIMLINE_AUTOCORRECT_PROPOSED_COLOR

Defines the color of the proposed correction of a misspelled string. Default is green.

Python Virtualenv

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_VIRTUALENV

Defines whether active python virtualenv shall be displayed. Default is 1.

SLIMLINE_VIRTUALENV_COLOR

Defines the color of the virtualenv name. Default is cyan.

SLIMLINE_VIRTUALENV_PARENS_COLOR

Defines the color of the parens surrounding the virtualenv name. Default is white.

Git Information

SLIMLINE_ENABLE_GIT

Defines whether git information shall be displayed (requires python). Default is 1.

Example

Here is an example for customizing the prompt symbol as well as the git repository indicator and branch format:

export SLIMLINE_PROMPT_VERSION=1 # Activate legacy option format
export SLIMLINE_PROMPT_SYMBOL='$'

# If you have a powerline compatible font you can also use the alternative repo indicator ''.
export GITLINE_REPO_INDICATOR='${reset}git'
export GITLINE_BRANCH='[${blue}${branch}${reset}]'

source "<path-to-slimline>/slimline.zsh"