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Rakete1111

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Registered: 2018-05-26

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urxvt (patched) can't seem to use fallback font Noto

I have urxvt patched (rxvt-unicode-patched in AUR) and I'm trying to use the Noto Sans Mono font with its corresponding powerline font.

If my .Xdefaults file has the following line, then unicode characters work but not powerline:

urxvt.font: xft:Noto Sans Mono:style=Regular

If I use this, then

urxvt.font: xft:Noto Mono for Powerline:style=Regular

powerline works but some unicode characters don't appear (it's the white box).

If I combine them, then the second font is always ignored, which is what leads me to believe that the fallback font (the second one) is somewhat ignored. Is this it, or is it something else?

I don't use any letter spacing, but changing it no 1 or 10 doesn't work too (it doesn't change anything except spacing).

I got the xft fonts by running fc-list. The powerline-font package doesn't seem to work so I got the patched Noto font by installing https://github.com/powerline/fonts from source.

Thanks!

Last edited by Rakete1111 (2018-05-26 22:28:32)