On 11/2/18 9:41 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 9:10 AM Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
> On Thursday, 01 November 2018 at 01:13, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
>> It will be nice to enable powerline theme by default system and user
>> wide. Simple reason is refresh the look of terminal while also providing
>> useful information especially for git branch. Since powerline does not
>> impact the performance, it will be great to set for Fedora 30.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
> You could start by explaining what "powerline theme" is and why is
> it worth enabling.
>
https://fedoramagazine.org/add-power-terminal-powerline/ That provides a nice
overview, but as someone who's extensively diddled
their bash configuration to achieve most all of this via a very
glorified PS1, can anyone tell me why powerline needs a daemon? Or if
it's not needed, what benefit does it bring?