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grininmonkey

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Registered: 2018-09-29

Posts: 34

vim airline status symbols broken but not powerline

I have been using Mint 19 with I3-gaps primarily and rarely logging into Cinnamon.. so I finally decided to to try out arch (enjoying it so far) so that I would have a clean... only what I wanted setup. I have nearly 95% of my original I3 setup ... working identically under arch and then I ran into something I have been struggling with for a bit and kinda of.... out of ideas.

In a nut shell... I did everything I did before (in Mint) such as installing patched fonts etc.. which appear to be somewhat working but specific symbols are missing or in conflict (I guess?).... and to be honest... I find it easier to figure out how to install arch and get things running in arch  than figuring out all this font stuff which always ends up being a huge headache for me...

My airline status looks like so.... with what is supposed to be the lines symbol... showing as unicode block

It appears that any of the special symbols (trailing spaces, etc) are broke.

I am using a libvte-based terminal... (xfce4-terminal) with "Source Code Pro Medium" set as the terminal font and not using system font.

I copied the patched fonts I use in my Mint install (which worked and shows correctly in vim-airline) to my new arch install.. in  /usr/share/fonts/OTF

Not clear on rather or not it impacts this.. but I ran mkfontdir, mkfontscale and fc-cache -fv etc....

/usr/share/fonts/OTF$ ls -l
total 1888
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  28622 Sep 29 15:42  fonts.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  28622 Sep 29 15:42  fonts.scale
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2264 Sep 12 06:08  PowerlineSymbols.otf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149016 Sep 28 19:16 'Source Code Pro Black for Powerline.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 147876 Sep 28 19:15 'Source Code Pro Bold for Powerline.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139784 Sep 28 19:17 'Source Code Pro ExtraLight for Powerline.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143180 Sep 28 19:14 'Source Code Pro for Powerline.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 142904 Sep 28 19:17 'Source Code Pro Light for Powerline.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 143220 Sep 28 19:17 'Source Code Pro Medium for Powerline.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122176 Sep 28 19:17 'Source Code Pro Powerline BlackItalic.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 120536 Sep 28 19:17 'Source Code Pro Powerline BoldItalic.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115368 Sep 28 19:18 'Source Code Pro Powerline ExtraLightItalic.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118312 Sep 28 19:18 'Source Code Pro Powerline Italic.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118132 Sep 28 19:18 'Source Code Pro Powerline LightItalic.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118212 Sep 28 19:18 'Source Code Pro Powerline MediumItalic.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118844 Sep 28 19:19 'Source Code Pro Powerline SemiboldItalic.otf'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145080 Sep 29 10:44 'Source Code Pro Semibold for Powerline.otf'

I switched back to powerline in my .vimrc just to make sure powerline would work and it does..

I can navigate and view the Private area for the patched fonts and find the symbols...

So what could I be missing? Any help or suggesting would be appreciated........