Shell prompts

• awesome-shell: Customization

Performance compared

• zsh-prompt-benchmark

  • Measure how long it takes for your zsh prompt to render

• romkatv/zsh-bench

  • Benchmark for interactive Zsh, from the p10k author

• p10k vs. starship

powerlevel10k

• GitHub
• Last release 2024-01, last commit 2025-04
• Focussed on speed,
  • see also the zsh-bench prompt comparism table which compares git-branch, agnoster, starship and powerlevel10k

Configure

• Config: ~/.p10k.zsh

Config wizard:

p10k configure

• Available segments

Starship

• Starship guide
• Github
• Rust
• No Asynchronous Rendering

Install:

sudo snap install starship

Recommended Fonts needs to get installed in ~/.local/share/fonts

Config file: ~/.config/starship.toml (~/snap/starship/current/.config/starship.toml for snap)

Debug config:

STARSHIP_LOG=debug starship prompt

or even:

STARSHIP_LOG=trace starship prompt

Couldn't find a way to easily build a custom segment

Spaceship

• Website and docs
• Github
• Shell
• v4 introduced asynchronous rendering

Other

• ohmyposh
• Spaceship
  • Zsh Prompt written in shell code
• Powerline: Slow!
• zinc