Some glyphs don't work, some are tiny... don't know what to do.

[Brottweiler]

I've been at this literally all day, and I just don't know what to do.

I run Archlinux, and have installed python-powerline-git.

My .Xresources is this:

URxvt*font: xft:Terminus:pixelsize=12,xft:Inconsolata\ for\ Powerline:pixelsize=12

and here is pictures of some powerlines:

My ZSH prompt

Tmux

Vim

EDIT: works now, what you see above is airline and not powerline. Removed airline and now it uses powerline

GVim

EDIT: works now, what you see above is airline and not powerline. Removed airline and now it uses powerline

Really tiny glyphs, and it is impossible to change the look or size of them...

And last, from here https://gist.github.com/agnoster/3712874 I copy pasted the "echo" command in a terminal;

echo "⮀ ± ⭠ ➦ ✔ ✘ ⚡"

and this is what I get

Anyone that can assist me here? I ran out of ideas..

[ZyX-I]

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On June 4, 2014 12:52:28 AM GMT+03:00, Christoffer Tibell notifications@github.com wrote:

I've been at this literally all day, and I just don't know what to do.

I run Archlinux, and have installed
python-powerline-git.

My .Xresources is this:

URxvt*font: xft:Terminus:pixelsize=12,xft:Inconsolata\ for\ Powerline:pixelsize=12

You should be using patched Terminus, not Terminus and Inconsolata for Powerline.

and here is pictures of some powerlines:

My ZSH prompt

Tmux

Vim

GVim

Really tiny glyphs, and it is impossible to change the look or size of
them...

And last, from here https://gist.github.com/agnoster/3712874 I copy
pasted the "echo" command in a terminal;

echo "⮀ ± ⭠ ➦ ✔ ✘ ⚡"

and this is what I get

Though patched Terminus will not help you with these characters.

Anyone that can assist me here? I ran out of ideas..

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[Brottweiler]

I'd love to use Patched Terminus, but I could not get it to work. How do I use it?

[ZyX-I]

@Brottweiler To make it work partly all I had is to place patched font into ~/.fonts and run fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts. But for some reason this made terminal only use one variant of this font (i.e. either bold or regular, but not both), so I had to remove non-patched version and name it Terminus, not as Terminus for powerline or something like this.

Though after looking at the images I do not think you are using powerline in vim or gvim: powerline does not show [No Name] and [] around unix. Tmux problems may be same as in #877.

[Brottweiler]

@ZyX-I Buw how do I actually use the patched Terminus font? It doesn't have a OTF file, just a bunch of ter-powerline-powerline-x*.pcf.gz files..

Though after looking at the images I do not think you are using powerline in vim or gvim

You are correct. I had airline installed, and airline "overwrote" powerline. Sorry, it works properly now in vim. But the other issue persist.

[ZyX-I]

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On June 4, 2014 9:56:07 AM GMT+03:00, Christoffer Tibell notifications@github.com wrote:

@ZyX-I Buw how do I actually use the patched Terminus font? It doesn't
have a OTF file, just a bunch of ter-powerline-powerline-x*.pcf.gz
files..

Terminus font does not have an official OTF version. Check out how these files are placed in your system (I have it in /usr/share/fonts, but there must be a tool that lists files belonging to some package) (you should already have unpatched version) and replicate this placement in $HOME/.fonts with patched one.

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[Brottweiler]

Yes, they are in /usr/share/fonts/local and the names are ter-powerline-powerline-x*.pcf.gz

So for example, there is ter-powerline-powerline-x12b.pcf.gz and ter-powerline-powerline-x12n.pcf.gz

12 == the size
b == bold
n == normal

But I don't know how to actually use it. How to "apply it" to .Xresources.

[Brottweiler]

Well, I got the patched Terminus font to work I guess... But with it, I have no bold fonts, but otherwise it looks the same. And it has the glyphs. But the glyphs look identical to the ones I already have, and there are still some missing.

For the record, I had ro tun xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local then xset fp rehash.

If I run the st terminal emulator, using just regular Terminus (maybe it's patched? dunno) I see these missing glyphs, but not in urxvt.

The missing glyphs are those you can see in the tmux powerline. The clock, and that other thing. Also, problem remails where the glyphs especially from when you are in a git repo, are incredibly small.

[ZyX-I]

But with it, I have no bold fonts, but otherwise it looks the same.

I was warning you that just installing the font is not enough: I do not know why, but I had to remove it:

But for some reason this made terminal only use one variant of this font (i.e. either bold or regular, but not both), so I had to remove non-patched version and name it Terminus, not as Terminus for powerline or something like this.

I cannot have posted non-renamed version to powerline-fonts repository though. To rename the font you need to use pcf2bdf and bdftopcf tools: something like this:

cat "${old}.pcf.gz" | gunzip | pcf2bdf | sed 's/old name/new name/' | bdftopcf | gzip > "${old/old name/new name}.pcf.gz" && rm "${old}.pcf.gz"

(I have not tested the command though)

The missing glyphs are those you can see in the tmux powerline. The clock, and that other thing. Also, problem remails where the glyphs especially from when you are in a git repo, are incredibly small.

None of the font patchers add glyphs not to private use area. Especially they are not adding glyphs we do not use (and glyphs in ⮀ ± ⭠ ➦ ✔ ✘ ⚡ are AFAIR not used by us. Not all definitely).

I do not know why @Lokaltog did not create a font patcher that adds glyphs that are missing in font, but that are not in private use area. But I (bitmap fonts patcher is my work) did not add them because I did not explicitly add any glyphs at all: bitmap font patcher is just opening PowerlineSymbols.otf font and patching provided font with all glyphs it finds there.

[Brottweiler]

No, you're right, those glyphs in perticular is from the agnoster (oh-my-)zsh theme. I assumed the Powerline patched fonts included them.

It appears as if all those glyphs, and the ones on this page shows just fine in GVim. They show, but very tiny, in regular vim running in urxvt.

That "clock" glyph that does not show in tmux, shows in gvim when I open the default theme file for tmux in it, but it does not show in vim running in urxvt (obviously).

So my main problem is...

1. That clock glyph (i think it's the only one?) does not show in urxvt
2. All other glyphs are incredibly small.

It seems like it's urxvt's problem, since it shows absolutely fine in GVim...

In my .vimrc I have set gfn=Terminus\ Regular\ 9.

[Brottweiler]

Closing this since it seems to be an rxvt-unicode issue since the issue doesn't exist in different terminal emulators...