Pixelated powerline

[ethanabrooks]

For some reason, the field separators in my spaceline are really pixelated. There's some other distortion in there as well. I'm using GNU Emacs 25.1.1 in OSx. Thanks!

Here are the settings in my user-config:

(defun dotspacemacs/user-config ()
  "Configuration function for user code.
This function is called at the very end of Spacemacs initialization after
layers configuration.
This is the place where most of your configurations should be done. Unless it is
explicitly specified that a variable should be set before a package is loaded,
you should place your code here."
  (setq ns-use-srgb-colorspace nil)
  ;; (setq powerline-default-separator 'bar)

  ;; Load company-coq when opening Coq files
  (add-hook 'coq-mode-hook #'company-coq-mode)

  ;; (load "~/.emacs.d/lisp/PG/generic/proof-site")
  (global-linum-mode) ; Show line numbers by default

  ;; treat underscores like spaces
  (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")
  )

[TheBB]

https://github.com/TheBB/spaceline/issues/113

One or more of the following:

• Check if powerline-height is set correctly
• Use utf-8 separators
• Complain to powerline about lack of hiDPI support

[ethanabrooks]

Thanks. So that mostly worked--the trick was (setq powerline-default-separator 'utf-8) However, the separators are still a washed out color:

One thing (weirdly) that temporarily fixes this is adding the line (setq ns-use-srgb-colorspace nil), reloading my dotfile, and then deleting the line. Nonetheless, the colors are always messed up when I restart spacemacs.

[TheBB]

Well, to make it permanent, you need to put it in your dot file permanently of course :-P

See spacemacs FAQ for more on that.

[ethanabrooks]

Right. I don't think I was very clear in my previous post. Putting it in the dotfile permanently does not solve the problem. These steps solve the problem:

1. Put the line in the dotfile.
2. Reload the dotfile (problem persists)
3. Comment out the line.
4. Reload the dotfile (screen colors change and problems go away).

[TheBB]

I mean, I'm not here to teach you how to set variables to values. Setting ns-use-srgb-colorspace to nil ought to fix the color difference on Mac. If you're not seeing the colors right check if the variable has the value you expect. If it doesn't you're not setting it correctly.