Zenith - A Sleek and Minimalist Zsh Theme

Zenith is a clean, modern Zsh theme designed for efficiency and aesthetics. Featuring a cool-toned color palette with intuitive Git status indicators, it keeps your terminal workflow smooth and distraction-free. Stay at the peak of productivity with a prompt that's both elegant and functional.

Features

• Minimalist design – Keeps the focus on your workflow with subtle borders framing the prompt area.
• Color-coded Git status – Instantly see changes in your repository.
• Compact directory display – Shows only the last two directories for clarity. When in home directory, displays expanded path for better context.
• Intuitive prompt symbols – Quick visual feedback on success or failure.
• Clean multiline continuation – Subtle vertical line for multiline commands instead of distracting "quote>" prompt.
• Session context indicators – Shows hostname, virtualization environment, terminal multiplexer, and session info at a glance.

Installation

Using Oh My Zsh

1. Clone the repository into your custom themes folder:

   git clone https://github.com/husniadil/zenith-oh-my-zsh-theme.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/zenith

2. Set the theme in your ~/.zshrc file:

   ZSH_THEME="zenith/zenith"

3. Apply the changes:

   omz reload

Prompt Overview

Zenith provides an elegant and informative prompt with a clean bordered design:

╭─ @hostname [LXC:105] [tmux:dev] ~/project ✱? main
╰─ ❯

Components (left to right)

Component	Description
╭─ / ╰─	Subtle box-drawing border characters
@hostname	Machine hostname (always visible)
[PVE] / [LXC:ID] / [VM]	Virtualization environment indicator
[tmux:session] / [screen:session] / etc.	Terminal multiplexer indicator
[zmx:session]	ZMX session indicator
~/project	Current directory (last 2 folders)
✱?+~	Git status indicators
main	Git branch name
❯	Prompt symbol (cyan=success, red=failure)

Session Context Indicators

Hostname

Always displayed as @hostname in green. Useful when working across multiple machines via SSH.

Virtualization Environment

Automatically detects or manually configured via environment variables:

Indicator	Detection	Environment Variable
[PVE]	Manual	export PVE_HOST=1
[LXC:105]	Manual	export LXC_ID=105
[LXC]	Auto	Detected via /proc/1/environ
[VM:100]	Manual	export PVE_VMID=100
[VM]	Auto	Detected via systemd-detect-virt (kvm/qemu)

Terminal Multiplexer

Automatically detected when running inside a terminal multiplexer:

Multiplexer	Indicator Example
tmux	[tmux:session-name]
GNU Screen	[screen:session-name]
Zellij	[zellij:session-name]
dvtm	[dvtm]
abduco	[abduco:session-name]

ZMX Session

Detected via $ZMX_SESSION environment variable set by ZMX:

[zmx:session-name]

Git Status Indicators

Symbol	Color	Meaning
✓	Green	Clean repository
✱	Yellow	Dirty repository
?	Cyan	Untracked files
+	Green	Staged files
~	Yellow	Modified files
-	Red	Deleted files
»	Light blue	Renamed files
═	Red	Unmerged conflicts
↑	Cyan	Ahead of remote
↓	Cyan	Behind remote

Prompt Examples

# Simple local prompt
╭─ @macbook ~/project ✓ main
╰─ ❯

# SSH to Proxmox host
╭─ @pve [PVE] ~/scripts
╰─ ❯

# Inside LXC container with tmux
╭─ @webserver [LXC:105] [tmux:dev] ~/app ✱?+ main
╰─ ❯

# Inside VM with dirty git repo
╭─ @database [VM] ~/backup ✱~ main
╰─ ❯

# Full combo: LXC + tmux + ZMX
╭─ @container [LXC:200] [tmux:work] [zmx:session] ~/project ✓ feature-branch
╰─ ❯

Customization

You can tweak colors and symbols by modifying zenith.zsh-theme to match your style.

Color Reference

Variable	Color Code	Usage
gray	FG[245]	Borders
lightblue	FG[075]	Directory path
cyan	FG[081]	Virtualization indicators, untracked files
green	FG[114]	Hostname, clean status, staged files
yellow	FG[221]	Multiplexer indicators, dirty status
red	FG[203]	Deleted files, conflicts
magenta	FG[213]	Git branch name
orange	FG[208]	ZMX indicator

Screenshots

Example screenshot of the prompt in action

License

Zenith is released under the MIT License.