Globally install powerline

2014-09-25·
Thom Wiggers
· 1 min read
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Today I’ve tried to globally install Powerline. That was a bit of a pain because it has no global config files.

Quick and dirty how-to:

  1. Add XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg to /etc/environment if it isn’t already set,
  2. Copy the config to /etc/xdg/powerline,
  3. Customize config,
  4. Load powerline from /etc/bash.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, etc.

My config can be found at on Github

Thom Wiggers
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Thom Wiggers
Senior Cryptography Researcher
Thom Wiggers is a cryptography researcher at PQShield. His PhD thesis was on the interactions of post-quantum cryptography with protocols, under the supervision of Peter Schwabe, at the Institute of Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University in The Netherlands.