powerline

Powerline configs for gnome-terminal. Tested and configured on Ubuntu-16.04 under gnome-terminal. Please note, this instruction (fonts installation part) will not work under any terminal emulator. It's confirmed to work under gnome-terminal, but it aslo should work under konsole.

For further info please refer: https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Screenshots

bash shell example (running local shell with python virtualenv activated):
bash shell example (running remote shell via SSH):
vim statusline example (normal mode):
vim statusline example (replace mode):

Requirements

git (sudo apt-get install git)

Installation

Installation consists of two parts:

Installing fonts for terminal emulator (gnome-terminal or konsole) - this should be done on a PC you're going to run terminal emulator on.
Installing and configuing powerline shell prompt on needed hosts for needed shell users.

Installing fonts

Ubuntu 16.04:

sudo apt-get install fonts-powerline

You may need to restart your terminal emulator in order to apply changes.

Installing and configuring powerline shell prompt

On a host you want to enable powerline shell prompt:

install packages:

sudo apt-get install powerline python3-powerline

run the following commands under needed shell user, this user should have bash shell:

# configure powerline
sed -i '1i term screen-256color' ~/.screenrc
git clone https://github.com/adidenko/powerline ~/.config/powerline

# enable in vim
echo "set laststatus=2" >> ~/.vimrc
echo -e "python3 from powerline.vim import setup as powerline_setup" >> ~/.vimrc
echo -e "python3 powerline_setup()\npython3 del powerline_setup" >> ~/.vimrc

# enable in shell
echo ". /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh" >> ~/.bashrc

# configure TERM variable to work properly under gnome-terminal with and without screen
echo 'if [ "$TERM" != "screen-256color" ] ; then' >> ~/.bashrc
echo -e "\texport TERM=xterm-256color\nfi" >> ~/.bashrc

That's it, now you should have powerline shell prompt and vim status line.