lf - Unicode icon set

karabaja4 · 2022-03-27 16:01:24

The de facto approach to enabling icons in lf is using nerdfont or by patching your favorite monospace font with fonts patcher.

I don't like either approach, former doesn't have the fonts I want, while latter messes with the font files (in my particular case, it messes with the line height) and appending huge sets of icon fonts to a monospace font feels hacky.

However, there is a solution: Unicode!

These days Unicode includes huge number of emojis and images, and I picked a collection of them to represent most common file types.

Example:

Source: https://github.com/karabaja4/arch/blob/ … f/icons.sh

Obviously, to make this work, you need a terminal emulator that properly supports Unicode. To use, copy or source the above script to your shell rc.

Last edited by karabaja4 (2022-07-23 08:36:19)

tucuxi · 2022-03-27 16:09:35

Very nice, I may use that. Out of curiosity: why a glass of red wine for .exe?

karabaja4 · 2022-03-27 16:11:34

tucuxi wrote:

Very nice, I may use that. Out of curiosity: why a glass of red wine for .exe?

Because I use wine to run the .exe

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#1 2022-03-27 16:01:24

lf - Unicode icon set

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Re: lf - Unicode icon set

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Re: lf - Unicode icon set

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