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Kotrfa

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Registered: 2012-10-25

Posts: 213

[closed]rxvt and powerline fonts work manually, don't loads .Xdefaults

Hello,

I am trying to solve a really bizarre problem. I am trying to set up urxvt with powerline. I have powerline correctly installed and even patched fonts installed.

When I run

urxvt -fn 'xft:Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline-12'

everything works and looks fine. I want to have it as default and hence I edited this lines in .Xdefaults:

Urxvt*font: xft:Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline:regular:pixelsize=14:antialias=true:hinting=true
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline:bold:pixelsize=14:antialias=true:hinting=true

and that just doesn't work in a sense that when I fire up urxvt, some stupid default font (similar to terminus) is loaded.

But when I change it to use "xft: Ubuntu Mono" or Inconsolata instead, it works correctly even from .Xdefaults. Font cache is recached, computer rebooted, locale set.

Furthermore, even if I fire up urxvt manually, the font correctly appears. But only some characters (more complicated ones just doesn't show up). In different terminals, e.g. gnome-terminal, everything works fine with this font. urxvt is starting to make me crazy.

Any hints? Thanks

Last edited by Kotrfa (2015-12-03 11:28:06)

Kotrfa

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Registered: 2012-10-25

Posts: 213

Re: [closed]rxvt and powerline fonts work manually, don't loads .Xdefaults

urxvt just dissapointed me - I spend several hours installing different and setting fonts and fontconfig. Special characters just didn't work there.

Installed lxterminal and going to live with that.