My Terminal, Finally Looking the Way I Want

I’ve been quietly unhappy with my terminal for a while — the default look is just… gray. So I put together yuzhou-mac-theme, a small repo with my Ghostty + zsh setup, and an install script that gets me a nice-looking shell in one command on a fresh machine.

It bundles four things I now can’t live without:

• Ghostty with JetBrainsMono Nerd Font, Gruvbox Dark, and a slightly transparent background
• zsh with autosuggestions and syntax highlighting — I can see commands light up as I type
• Starship as the prompt, so I always know which git branch I’m on
• eza as a drop-in ls with icons and colors (ll, la, lt for tree)

Setup is just:

git clone https://github.com/BMEngineeR/yuzhou-mac-theme.git ~/yuzhou-mac-theme
cd ~/yuzhou-mac-theme && bash install.sh

It works on both my Mac and my Linux box. If you’ve ever opened a fresh terminal and thought “this could be nicer,” give it a try.