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Neikron

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From: Canada

Registered: 2010-04-01

Posts: 22

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Powerline fonts not displaying in URXVT

Alright, so I've been working on getting powerline fonts working with URXVT through various instructions.

It seems to be working fine in terminator, and I'm pretty certain I set it up correctly.

I followed the instructions if the symbols aren't showing via here, and ensured that urxvt was compiled with unicode 3 support and the LANG environment variable as mentioned.

I'm not sure what I'm missing, but it can't be much if other terminal emulators are working properly.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if you need anymore information and I'll post it.

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: Powerline fonts not displaying in URXVT

What does "not displaying" mean? So you set the font for urxvt to the patched powerline font (I'm assuming this is part of the "I'm pretty certain I set it up correctly") and then started urxvt (with a shell or some application that uses powerline) -- what do you see? No font at all, some default/fallback font, the right font but without the added symbols, ...?

Neikron

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From: Canada

Registered: 2010-04-01

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Re: Powerline fonts not displaying in URXVT

I apologize for the bad explanation. To clarify further, it looks exactly like this (terminator on top, urxvt on bottom):

klaus

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2013-03-09

Posts: 42

Re: Powerline fonts not displaying in URXVT

I apologize for the bad explanation. To clarify further, it looks exactly like this (terminator on top, urxvt on bottom):

http://i.imgur.com/VwpTO5O.png

Did you find how to fix this?

bch24

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Registered: 2011-11-20

Posts: 27

Re: Powerline fonts not displaying in URXVT

Powerline font's work for me with urxvt.

.Xresources

--- snip ---
URxvt*font:                           xft:Anonymous Pro for Powerline:regular:size=13
---- snip ----

$ ls ~/.local/share/fonts/
AnonymousPro    DroidSansMono  Inconsolata-g  InputMono       Meslo       SourceCodePro  UbuntuMono  fonts.scale
DejaVuSansMono  Inconsolata    InconsolataDz  LiberationMono  README.rst  Terminus       fonts.dir

fonts from https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/la … stallation

Make sure you build the fonts.dir and fonts.scale in font directory.

Then make sure to add this to .xinitrc

if [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]]; then
  xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
fi

xset +fp ~/.local/share/fonts

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Powerline fonts not displaying in URXVT

I'm not sure when it happened - or how - but I switched back from terminess-powerline to regular terminus, and I still have the powerline symbols in my prompt in urxvt.

EDIT: I guess no one here actually mentioned terminess specifically, sorry.  I guess I'm a bit biased, why would you use anything else

Last edited by Trilby (2014-10-08 03:08:36)

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