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Starship Prompt Setup with Hack Nerd Font in WSL

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Prerequisites

  • WSL 2 installed with a Linux distribution (e.g., Ubuntu)

  • Fish shell installed (optional but recommended)

  • Hack Nerd Font installed on Windows (required for icons)

  • For related setup details, see 🐧 WSL + Fish Shell Setup Notes

Install Hack Nerd Font

  1. Download Hack Nerd Font from:

  2. Extract the zip file.

  3. Right-click the .ttf files → Install for all users (or Install).

Set Hack Nerd Font in Terminal

Windows Terminal

  1. Open Settings → Profiles → WSL profile.

  2. Go to Appearance → Font face.

  3. Select Hack NF.

VS Code Integrated Terminal

  1. Open Settings (Ctrl + ,) → search terminal.integrated.fontFamily.

  2. Set:

Hack NF

Install Starship Prompt

Run the official install script:

curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh

Add Starship initialization to Fish shell config:

echo 'starship init fish | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Apply Gruvbox Rainbow Preset

Generate the preset configuration:

starship preset gruvbox-rainbow -o ~/.config/starship.toml

(Optional) Use a community version with extended language support:

curl -o ~/.config/starship.toml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fang2hou/starship-gruvbox-rainbow/main/starship.toml

Reload Fish Shell

source ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Verify Setup

starship prompt

All icons should render correctly if Hack Nerd Font is applied.

References

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