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System and Network configuration • Powerline: a prompt and statusline utility

Hello,

I would like to draw your attention to a package called powerline which is available in the Debian repositories:
  • powerline (2.8.3-4) :
    Package: powerline (2.8.3-4)

    prompt and statusline utility

    Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
According to its documentation in powerline.README.Debian:
Powerline for Debian
--------------------
Once installed, a few simple steps are needed to activate Powerline in your
favorite editor and/or shell.

bash
----
Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc file:

Code:

  . /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh
or use:

Code:

  sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow powerline
to globally enable/disable powerline automatically for all users on the system.

tmux
----
Add the following lines in your ~/.tmux.conf file:

Code:

  source '/usr/share/powerline/bindings/tmux/powerline.conf'
vim
---
Make sure the vim-nox package is installed, and insert the following lines in
your ~/.vimrc file:

Code:

  python3 from powerline.vim import setup as powerline_setup  python3 powerline_setup()  python3 del powerline_setup
Replace 'python3' with 'python' on Debian 9 (stretch) and earlier.

Alternatively, if the vim-addon-manager package is installed, the following
command may be used:

Code:

  vim-addons install powerline
zsh
---

Add the following line in your ~/.zshrc file:

Code:

  . /usr/share/powerline/bindings/zsh/powerline.zsh
others
------
Powerline also supports other prompts and statuslines. See the documentation in
the powerline-doc for the complete list of supported programs and installation
instructions.

Configuration
-------------

The default configuration files for Powerline are located in
/usr/share/powerline/config_files

root may customize Powerline system-wide by copying the contents of this
directory into /etc/powerline and modifying the JSON-formatted configuration
files. This will overwrite the configuration from
/usr/share/powerline/config_files and apply globally for all users on the
system.

Additionally a user may customize Powerline by using ~/.config/powerline
accordingly. This will overwrite both the configuration from
/usr/share/powerline/config_files and /etc/powerline, applying to the current
user only.

Documentation for the various configuration options is found in the
powerline-doc package, at this URL:

Code:

  file:///usr/share/doc/powerline/html/configuration.html#main-configuration
Daemon
------
Powerline provides a daemon that can be used to improve its performance when
it is used in multiple concurrent applications. It can be started using the
following command:

Code:

  $ systemctl --user start powerline-daemon.service
To start the daemon automatically upon login:

Code:

  $ systemctl --user enable powerline-daemon.service
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Statistics: Posted by Aki — 2025-03-02 14:53



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