How to only use oh my zsh in Iterm2, and not all other terminals also?

Question

After installing oh my zsh and customizing it a little, iTerm2 looks awesome but the default terminal on MacOS looks like crap because it can't load the plugins and I don't want it to. So how can I only use oh-my-zsh on Iterm2?

Disconcert

apple.stackexchange.com/questions/191780/… I think here is the same question. – Whereabouts

Answer 1

Sounds difficult to do so. Perhaps you can specify your Terminal to open with bash rather than zsh. Then iterm2 will open with zsh (and oh-my-zsh) and terminal will open with bash.

Rakehell

isnt it possible to use zsh on terminal too but without ohmyzsh configurations ? – Cretan

@Cretan you can always run some shell manually. If you wanna use zsh without ohmyzsh, remove export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh from you .zshrc file and run it manully in 'shells open with command' – Rakehell

Answer 2

Move all the oh-my-zsh configuration from .zshrc to a different file .zshrc-oh-my-zsh (if you have some commands that you have added to .zshrc you can leave them in .zshrc and move only the oh-my-zsh portion to the new file)

And in the original .zshrc file, I had an if check to source that file only if the terminal is iTerm.app

if [[ -n "$TERM_PROGRAM" && "$TERM_PROGRAM" == "iTerm.app" ]]; then
    source ~/.zshrc-oh-my-zsh
fi

Harrow

No reason to use -eq with [[ ... ]]; just use = or ==. – Rampart