All the current themes can be found in the themes/ directory in the oh-my-zsh distribution. See list here.
In order to enable a theme, set ZSH_THEME to the name of the theme in your ~/.zshrc, before sourcing Oh My Zsh; for example: ZSH_THEME=robbyrussell
If you do not want any theme enabled, just set ZSH_THEME to blank: ZSH_THEME=""
Here is a collection of screenshots and descriptions of themes that have been contributed to Oh My Zsh. There are some missing from this page. If you want to add or edit descriptions, see the format description at the bottom of this page.
The Themes
robbyrussell
the (default) that Robby uses
The rest of the themes, in alphabetical order:
af-magic
afowler
agnoster
Shown with Solarized Dark colorscheme and Powerline-patched Meslo 14pt in iTerm 2.
Additional setup:
- Install one of the patched fonts from Vim-Powerline or patch your own for the special characters.
-
Optionally set
DEFAULT_USERto your regular username followed by prompt_context(){} in~/.zshrcto hide the “user@hostname” info when you’re logged in as yourself on your local machine.
alanpeabody
amuse
Shown in the screenshot with tmux and the powerline plugin (you might need to install one of the patched powerline fonts for it to look the same).
arrow
aussiegeek
avit
awesomepanda
bira
blinks
Additional setup: Set up Solarized.
bureau
To use: In the right prompt you see git status and (if you use nvm) the Node.js version. (I’m using the Solarized color scheme in this screenshot.)
candy
clean
cloud
crunch
cypher
dallas
darkblood
daveverwer
dieter
Additional setup: Get this small fix if you don’t have it yet. (Fix was pulled into robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh on 2011-01-08.)
dogenpunk
dpoggi
eastwood
evan
a minimal prompt
fishy
The fish shell prompt with git support
flazz
Has git and vi-command mode support (when enabled)
frisk
funky
it’s funky…
gallifrey
gallois
garyblessington
gentoo
geoffgarside
gianu
gnzh
imajes
jnrowe
jreese
jtriley
juanghurtado
junkfood
Totally ripped off Dallas theme
kafeitu
kardan
kennethreitz
kolo
kphoen
lambda
linuxonly
(As the name states, this only works on linux.)
lukerandall
macovsky
maran
mh
michelebologna
miloshadzic
minimal
mortalscumbag
also tells you when logged in over ssh
mrtazz
muse
nanotech
nebirhos
nicoulaj
norm
philips
pygmalion
(Shown with Solarized Dark colorscheme.)
risto
rixius
rkj-repos
sammy
simple
smt
sorin
sporty_256
steeef
sunaku
exit status if nonzero, status & branch if git, pwd always
sunrise
Lightweight prompt with exit status and git status consistent mode line
superjarin
git status, git branch, and ruby, all in a no muss, no fuss prompt! Works with RVM, chruby, and rbenv (just activate the corresponding plugin).
suvash
username, host, directory, git branch and rvm gemset
terminalparty
There is a party every day.
theunraveler
Minimal, informative when it needs to be.
tjkirch
Based on dst, plus a lightning bolt and return codes.
tonotdo
trapd00r
wedisagree
Instructions to further customize the theme are available as comments in the theme file.
wezm
wuffers
xiong-chiamiov
xiong-chiamiov-plus
ys
Clean, simple, compatible and meaningful.Tested on Linux, Unix and Windows under ANSI colors. It is recommended to use with a dark background.
zhann
More themes
You can find more themes here.
(Don’t) Send us your theme! (for now)
We have enough themes for the time being. Please fork the project and add on in there, you can let people know how to grab it from there.
Or put it gist and list it in https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/External-themes .
Theme Description Format
The theme descriptions in this page should contain:
- The name of the theme
- A screenshot
- (Preferably in PNG format, and hosted on a GitHub issue)
- Instructions for any configuration besides setting
ZSH_THEMEin~/.zshrc- For example, font installation, terminal color scheme configuration, or optional environment variables that affect the theme
- Any dependencies outside Oh My Zsh
We use manually-constructed screenshots because some of the themes require additional terminal configuration to look their best, and so the code in example shell sessions can showcase the theme's features. There is also a separate collection of automatically-generated screenshots linked at the bottom of this page.
Uploading screenshots to GitHub
We host all the screenshot images on GitHub itself, to avoid external dependencies on other hosting services or URLs that might break. We use issue attachments which will get them in to githubusercontent.com. (It's also possible to store image files in a GitHub wiki itself, but this requires you to have Contributor permissions for the repo whose Wiki you're editing. The issue-attachment method can be done by anybody.)
To upload an image to GitHub, just drag and drop it into the text area on an issue you're editing. You can use issue #3619 for this to avoid spamming people with notifications about new issues. The uploaded image will turn in to a link in Markdown format. Edit that to use the special [](image-url) syntax to make the image link to itself, so people can open the image in a new tab to view it full size. (Images inside a wiki page may be displayed scaled down.)
For example:
[](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1441704/6315419/915f6ca6-ba01-11e4-95b3-2c98114b5e5c.png)
If you have several uploaded screenshot links you need to convert to that self-linked syntax, you can use this sed command on the markdown file to programmatically convert them.
sed 's/^!\[[a-zA-Z0-9 -]*\](\([^)]*\)) *$/[&](\1)/'
Screenshots of Each Theme
Screenshots of each theme (as of 2013-04-10), in OS X Terminal.app using Consolas 13pt and Pro color scheme, inside a folder containing both a git and a mercurial repo. Each screenshot displays the output of the pwd command. It has shortcomings (plugins for some themes might be missing), but it offers a convenient and uniform overview of each theme. Plugins used were battery, rvm, hg prompt, among others.