selloween/wsl-suckless

A short setup guide of making WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) more awesome.

wsl-suckless

A short setup guide of making WSL more awesome and suck less.

WSL Terminal

Download and install WSL Terminal: https://github.com/goreliu/wsl-terminal

wget https://github.com/goreliu/wsl-terminal/releases/download/v0.8.13/wsl-terminal-0.8.13.7z && 7z x wsl-terminal-0.8.13.7z

Use TMUX

Start TMUX at startup

Add this to ~/.bashrc

[[ -z "$TMUX" && -n "$USE_TMUX" ]] && {
    [[ -n "$ATTACH_ONLY" ]] && {
        tmux a 2>/dev/null || {
            cd && exec tmux
        }
        exit
    }

    tmux new-window -c "$PWD" 2>/dev/null && exec tmux a
    exec tmux
}

Install ZSH

sudo apt-get install zsh

Make ZSH the default shell

Add this to .bashrc

# Launch Zsh
if [ -t 1 ]; then
exec zsh
fi

Install "Oh My ZSH"

curl -L https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh | sh

Set ZSH Theme

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes

Set e.g. ZSH_THEME="agnoster" in ~/.zshrc`

Add Solarized Dark Colors

In theme options of WSL Terminal choose the Solarized Dark theme.

Get terminal colors for Solarized Dark.

mkdir ~/git
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/seebi/dircolors-solarized .
echo "eval 'dircolors ~/git/dircolors-solarized/dircolors.256dark'" >> ~/.zshrc

Download and install DejaVu Font

https://github.com/powerline/fonts/tree/master/DejaVuSansMono

Change Font in WSL Terminal Settings.