Right-aligned prompts are not right-aligned in Bash/mintty on Windows #5090
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@Bilge weird this has never been reported before. I can try to have a look. |
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Due to git bash' broken nature it can't interact nicely with the native Windows API and thus reported the incorrect terminal width. Fix incoming. |
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Thanks for the fast fix 🙂 👍🏻 The default theme is right-aligned; my (slightly modified) version of P10K is not quite aligned to the right-hand edge but that probably just requires some tweaking. |
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Actually, it's still doing the weird thing where descending into directories is pulling further and further away from the right-hand edge. Only in the home directory is it flush against the right-hand side.
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I'll have a look, this shouldn't happen although it can be another git bash bug. Does the same happen inside Windows Terminal? |
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It does not happen in PowerShell in Windows Terminal... although it's not really a fair test since I'm not using the Nerd font in Windows Terminal (nor am I using Bash). I tried to get it to run in WSL 1, but it doesn't work because the init script spits out the host path instead of the mounted path in WSL. |
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@Bilge you can run bash also in Windows Terminal, doesn't need to be PWSH. |
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Sure, but it keeps messing up the path. Whether under WSL 1 or just To be clear, the init script is the same under git Bash, but git Bash is clever in that it automatically remaps references to |
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@Bilge not a bug. When using WSL, you need to use the linux executable. I meant you can run git bash, which is a Windows runtime faking linux tooling, inside Terminal. WSL is a linux runtime, so it needs to Linux oh-my-posh to work. |
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So you claim, and yet WSL 1 can run Windows native binaries, including oh-my-posh just fine. After all, it spits out the init script, it's only the paths that are incorrect. Case in point, Of course, what you are suggesting isn't wrong; I could install it twice, using the native runtime, it's just that I don't want to install it twice 🙂 |
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@Bilge I know it can, and on WSL1 it will be "fast", on 2 slow and it's going to interact with Windows API's whereas the context is actually a linux runtime. It can be solved, but I purposefully don't do that. It's not a good idea. |
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Anyway, using the |
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@Bilge I'm going to have a look, always interesting. |
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Having installed the LiterationMono Nerd Font in Windows Terminal, it still seems to be printing consistent widths (with consistent right-alignment), so the alignment issue seems to be purely isolated to git Bash. Probably I am the only one trying to use OMP in the git Bash environment, which is why none of these issues have been discovered before 😆 |
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@Bilge trust me, there are plenty 😁 But, people do tend to use Windows Terminal with git bash rather than mintty. |
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Uh... git Bash uses mintty. They are, effectively, one and the same. |
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@Bilge mintty is the terminal emulator, not the shell. You can run git bash as is inside Windows Terminal. |
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Oh, heh. Well I ran the git Bash specific flavour of Bash inside WSL 1 and it actually exhibits the same behaviour. So it is a git Bash issue (probably not a mintty issue).
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@Bilge you can use this configuration to see what bash behaves like in Windows Terminal: {
"commandline": "%PROGRAMFILES%/Git/usr/bin/bash.exe -i -l",
"guid": "{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000002}",
"icon": "%PROGRAMFILES%/Git/mingw64/share/git/git-for-windows.ico",
"name": "Bash",
"startingDirectory": "%USERPROFILE%"
}Git Bash is actually mintty that runs this bash version inside as a packaged entity. That said, I don't have the above issue with my theme. 
I can reproduce this using Git's Bash with 
You can fix it by adjusting the configuration for the 
I'll see if I can add that as the native behaviour and hopefully that's the last of Git Bash' shenanigans. I do promote the use of nushell when you dislike PowerShell on Windows, that's a really, really good shell that integrates natively with Windows unlike Git Bash. |
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I guess changing |
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@Bilge I can reproduce the issue on bash anywhere using |
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@Bilge after a good night's rest, I found the issue and oh-my-posh is responsible. We escape
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Hi @JanDeDobbeleer, I have a problem after using the latest version. Could you please support me to fix it? |
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@hungnguyen1503 set |
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Hi @JanDeDobbeleer, |
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What happened?
The right-aligned portions of the prompt are never right-aligned; they sit somewhere in the middle of the screen. Moreover, they keep changing their alignment depending on the width of the left-aligned segments, which is weird.
In case you are supposing this is a limitation with Bash/mintty, the same feature works fine in Starship.
Theme
powerlevel10k_rainbow
What OS are you seeing the problem on?
Windows
Which shell are you using?
bash
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