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ezstyles

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 14

Overlapping text in terminal emulator

Hello everyone,

I'm new to Arch here, I just got it installed several days ago and it has been great so far except for the issue of overlapping text in my terminal emulator. I have tried various fixes, none of which have fixed my issue. I am using i3 as my windows manager and terminator as my terminal emulator, both of which are set to use my system font. Any help would be greatly appreciated and I am more than happy to provide any details.

Thanks,
-Ez

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Overlapping text in terminal emulator

Your prompt has unescaped sequences in it. Use one of these: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Color_Bash_Prompt

Please paste your .bashrc or any other shell initialisation files: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

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ezstyles

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 14

Re: Overlapping text in terminal emulator

My ~/.bashrc is as follows:

#
# ~/.bashrc
#

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return

alias ls='ls --color=auto'
PS1='[\u@\h \W]\$ '

Ok, so I had googled "overlapping terminal text" which mostly brought up ubuntu forum questions that were due to people not having font packages installed. I entered fc-list in my terminal as per the Arch wiki on fonts just to verify that I had font packages installed and it showed that I did so I moved on from there. Then I decided, just to see what it would do, to install a font I didn't already have and voila. Fixed the problem. I'm not sure as to why the previously installed fonts didnt seem to work, but it is working now, and I hope that this may help someone else facing a simliar seemingly unsolveable issue fix it rather than spending hours researching a problem that apparently doesn't exist

So, in summary, if you are having trouble with overlapping terminal emulator text, try installing a font not already installed.

Thanks again,
-Ez

xaptronic

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Registered: 2018-05-09

Posts: 2

Re: Overlapping text in terminal emulator

FWIW, this just happened to me and I came across this post.

At some point during installation of Cinnamon, I was asked to select a font package. There were a bunch of them installed. The default was noto-fonts.

After coming across post, I installed ttf-liberation (pacman -S ttf-liberation) as suggested above and the problem with fonts in terminator was resolved.

circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

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Re: Overlapping text in terminal emulator

xaptronic, thank you for your contribution.  However, please try not to necrobump posts in the future.  Since this 3 years old I doubt anyone is still looking for a solution to it.

jasonwryan

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Re: Overlapping text in terminal emulator

Indeed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing

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