Starship

Starship is a cross-platform and cross-shell prompt for developers, similar to oh-my-zsh, but with a focus on performance and simplicity. It also has full Pixi support. You can install it using the following command:

pixi global install starship

For information about how to configure and set up starship, see the official documentation.

In order for starship to always find the right python executable, you can adjust its configuration file.

~/.config/starship.toml

[python]
# customize python binary path for pixi
python_binary = [
  # this is the python from PATH if in a pixi shell
  # (assuming you don't have python on your global PATH)
  "python",
  # fall back to pixi's python if it's available
  ".pixi/envs/default/bin/python",
]

By default, starship uses 🧚🏻 as pixi's symbol. You can adjust it as follows if you want a different symbol

~/.config/starship.toml

[pixi]
symbol = "📦 "

As starship already displays a custom message when a pixi environment is active, you can disable pixi's custom PS1:

pixi config set shell.change-ps1 "false"