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lowpass

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Registered: 2015-01-31

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urxvt and Font Awesome (or: what terminal can do this?)

I have been using urxvt and it's been great. Then I tried to add Font Awesome into the font list and ran into issues -- same ones posted about here.

Seems like it's an urxvt issue? Has anyone been able to use FA with urxvt?

Or, if that's not possible, what other choices might work? Really would prefer something lightweight. I looked at lxterminal and couldn't see a way to setup fallback fonts, and st seems promising but for the need to make my own package for it (not awful but it seems overkill for simple configuration).

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: urxvt and Font Awesome (or: what terminal can do this?)

Have you tried the patched version of rxvt-unicode?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt … e-patched/

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lowpass

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Registered: 2015-01-31

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Re: urxvt and Font Awesome (or: what terminal can do this?)

To be honest I had not, because I ran into a post somewhere else where someone had tried that and it didn't help

But just to give it a shot, I just tried it.. and it didn't help.
Still get

$ urxvt -fn 'xft:Font Awesome'
urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'Font Awesome:minspace=True', ignoring.
urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.

ygoreus

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From: 4th Dimmension

Registered: 2014-07-12

Posts: 6

Re: urxvt and Font Awesome (or: what terminal can do this?)

I've found that if you use the hermit font (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/otf-hermit/) the symbols show up.

EDIT: So its not actually the hermit font that displays the glyphs, but rather the powerline patched fonts (https://github.com/powerline/fonts).
              specifically I'm using the Dejavu Sans Mono For Powerline one.
         My bad, I should have checked that before posting...

Last edited by ygoreus (2015-10-04 22:23:04)