Merge pull request #1 from dritter/dritter/better_installation_instructions

Fixing installation instructions to properly use OMZ's `custom` dir.
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Ben Hilburn 2015-03-22 12:48:53 -07:00
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@ -41,19 +41,15 @@ here](https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation/linux.html#fonts-
You can also find the raw font files [in this Github
repository](https://github.com/powerline/fonts).
To install this theme, drop the `.zsh-theme` file into your `.oh-my-zsh/themes`
directory. A better form of installation is to clone this repository and then
create a symlink in your 'themes' directory:
To install this theme, drop the `.zsh-theme` file into your `.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes`
directory:
$ git clone https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k.git powerlevel9k.git
$ ln -s powerlevel9k.git/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/powerlevel9k.zsh-theme
Note that *you cannot clone this repository into your `~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/` directory*.
Oh-My-Zsh does not traverse subdirectories for themes, and will not find your theme.
$ cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes
$ git clone https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k.git powerlevel9k
You then need to select it in your `~/.zshrc`:
ZSH_THEME="powerlevel9k"
ZSH_THEME="powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k"
If you do not want to display the `user@host` string, you should also put this
in your `~/.zshrc`: