How do I disable oh-my-posh temporarely

[AndrewSav]

When I set GODEBUG=inittrace=1 I'm starting getting traces from oh-my-posh. I'm interested in traces from my stuff instead, so I would like to temporarily disable oh-my-posh and then re-enable it afterwards. How do I do that?

[JanDeDobbeleer]

Not possible as far as I can see.

[JanDeDobbeleer]

Yes, excluding. Disabling would be by commenting out the init statement.

[AndrewSav]

In the profile? That makes sense. I was hoping for a command to swich off and on dynamically, e.g. oh-my-posh off pwsh | Invoke-Expression etc... this way you do not need to restart the terminal. I do not keep session history between sessions for security reason, so I cannot integrate restarting terminal often into my workflow ;(

[JanDeDobbeleer]

it overrides the prompt function so you can override that one yourself if you want to.

[GameLord2011]

@JanDeDobbeleer maybe add a command to turn it off for the session?

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@gameking2011 not easy, nor in the scope of the project. It overrides the prompt functions which is mostly complicated logic.

[mrwensveen]

You can start a new shell without loading your profile with pwsh --NoProfile or pwsh -nop. Another way would be to start a new shell with an environment variable that you would then test in your profile whether or not to start oh-my-posh: Start-Process -Environment @{ DISABLE_OMP = '1' } pwsh. Inside $PROFILE:

# ..
if (-not $env:DISABLE_OMP) {
  oh-my-posh init etc etc
}