Missing left prompt elements for powerlevel9k

fixit_fiona

noob here. I've installed iTerm2, zsh, oh-my-zsh and powerlevel9k. Afterwards I've installed Hyper3 and Spaceship prompt. Then I changed back to powerlevel9k. Can't remember if I did anything else worth mentioning on the way, but currently this is how my prompt looks like (red rectangles): Notice the different between the prompts in the right and left pane. I wonder why it happened and if there's a way to change it back. This is the code from my...

Originally asked by idankor on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Powerlevel9k has half a dozen bugs affecting right prompt rendering. This is one of them: right prompt is supposed to be hidden if it would overlap left prompt, but powerlevel9k renders it on top of left prompt, obscuring a part of the latter in the process. The easiest solution is to switch to powerlevel10k -- a fast backward-compatible reimplementation where all known bugs are fixed and many extra features added. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/themes/powerlevel10k Set ZSH_THEME=powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k in your ~/.zshrc . This will fix the issue you are having and make your prompt 10 times faster. Now you can also use extra features...

Full answer by Roman Perepelitsa: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/546560 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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