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rg_arc

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Registered: 2011-03-20

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urxvt font issues

I have been using urxvt for a while and I have no issues with the terminal except for configuring the fonts. The problem isn't that the font I declare in the config fails to show up, the problem is that is the only font that shows up. In order to have essential fonts and icons show up I need to specify fallback fonts in the config. I can't have fallback fonts for everything on my system, which is why I don't use urxvt primarily anymore as there are plenty of icons and fonts that just simply don't show up when I need them to.

For example, I have conky setup in i3 to use FontAwesome icons, which are installed on my system and are working as I can confirm that using termite. Here are screenshots of what I mean:

urxvt
http://s15.postimg.org/fumtqd6h7/conkyurxvt.png

termite
http://s14.postimg.org/o4uusyig1/conkytermite.png

A friend of mine claims that in urxvt he can see those icons with only hermit declared in his config: http://ix.io/he3

Is this possible?

EDIT:

sorry thanks for the edit @jwr

Last edited by rg_arc (2015-05-07 04:05:41)