Fish + Atuin + Tide + Custom Prompts for Linux terminals

NOTE: I set up all my machines to default to the Bash terminal and set up an alias f=”fish” so that when I ssh in I can hit f and be in the Fish shell. It seems to work better this way with scripting across many servers. Also, Ctrl-D drops you out of Fish back to Bash and one more Ctrl-D exits the ssh session.

NOTE: I have not fully tested this on CachyOS or any other Arch based system yet. In the process of doing CachyOS now and will update this article if needed.

Fish + Atuin + Tide Setup Commands

Copy/paste these commands in sequence for each server

Step 1: Install Fish

# Ubuntu/Debian/Mint/Proxmox
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y fish curl

# CachyOS  
sudo pacman -S fish curl

Step 2: Add Bash Alias

echo 'alias f="fish"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Step 3: Install Atuin

bash <(curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://setup.atuin.sh)

Step 4: Switch to Fish and Install Everything

f

Step 5: Install Fisher (Fish Package Manager)

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jorgebucaran/fisher/main/functions/fisher.fish | source && fisher install jorgebucaran/fisher

Step 6: Install Tide

fisher install IlanCosman/tide@v6

Step 7: Install Atuin Fish Integration

fisher install atuinsh/atuin

Step 8: Apply Your Clean Prompt Config

set -U tide_right_prompt_items context
set -U tide_left_prompt_items pwd git newline character

Step 9: Test the New Prompt

exit
f

---

Total time per server: ~90 seconds

Your prompt will show:

╭─ /current/directory ─────────── user@servername ─╮
╰─❯