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#1 2016-10-20 16:39:43

rodrigobr92
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Registered: 2016-10-20
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Powerline symbols on console

Hello everyone.
I'm trying to use Arch without a DE for development.
I got to install Powerline, but I wonder...
It's possible to use the symbols without a DE?
I'm thinking of combining Tmux, Zsh, Vim and Powerline to build a development system and share it as an arch based distro later.
It's been 3 hours of research and I'm still not able to do it.
Thanks in advance.

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#2 2016-10-20 16:56:37

chris.m
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Registered: 2014-04-06
Posts: 24

Re: Powerline symbols on console

Yes, you can do that.

You can find some console fonts patched for Powerline here;

https://github.com/powerline/fonts/tree … rminus/PSF

Its up to you where you place the files, I put mine in /usr/share/fonts/PSF. You can test the font using the setfont command and make it permanent by creating or editing /etc/vconsole.conf

Example

FONT=/usr/share/fonts/PSF/ter-powerline-v16b.psf

Full details are in the Arch Wiki

Last edited by chris.m (2016-10-20 16:58:48)

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#3 2016-10-25 16:43:47

rodrigobr92
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Registered: 2016-10-20
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Re: Powerline symbols on console

Thanks man. I got it to work now.
It isn't possible to make just like the terminal with a DE with all the bg colors and everything?
Sorry for the late response, busy times.

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#4 2016-10-25 17:45:55

GSiervi
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From: Brasil
Registered: 2016-10-25
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Re: Powerline symbols on console

Hello Rodrigo,

Have you tried i3 window manager?
It is the best i could get without a DE.. very lightweight and customizable!

And, off-topic, are you brazilian too?

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#5 2016-10-27 23:54:23

rodrigobr92
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Registered: 2016-10-20
Posts: 4

Re: Powerline symbols on console

Hello GSiervi, yes I am brazillian. smile

I tried I3 already, but I want to only use the console, without DE AND without a window manager.
I want to force myself to learn how to use only the command line tools to work with everything in the system.
I am a web developer trying to speed up my workflow as much as possible with this knowledge.
And someday make a cool distro with all tools for this purpose, think of it as a Kali for webdev with cli.

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#6 2016-10-28 07:45:40

Mr.Elendig
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Registered: 2004-11-07
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Re: Powerline symbols on console

Messing around on the tty will teach you nothing but to hate the tty.


Evil #archlinux@libera.chat channel op and general support dude.
. files on github, Screenshots, Random pics and the rest

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#7 2016-10-31 19:01:23

rodrigobr92
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Registered: 2016-10-20
Posts: 4

Re: Powerline symbols on console

Mr.Elendig, I disagree. So far was more fun than sorrow. Just these personalization stuff that are annoying. The rest flows just like a breeze.

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