search

gabrielelana / awesome-terminal-fonts

Tools and instructions on how to have awesome symbols in a terminal with a monospace font
MIT License
2.45k stars 230 forks source link

Any tips for fonts not showing up in rxvt? #17

Closed WishCow closed 8 years ago

WishCow commented 9 years ago

I'm using rxvt-unicode, and I can't get the fonts to show up, with the fallback method. I'm trying

echo -e "\uf175"

But this produces a square in rxvt. If I try it in xfce4-terminal, it works fine.

bfrg commented 8 years ago

It doesn't work because the characters have different widths. You can read about this in man 7 urxvt (Section "Why does rxvt-unicode leave pixel droppings"). Here someone had the same problem with a different font: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=184089

gabrielelana commented 8 years ago

I will consider this closed since the OP hasn't said anything in almost a year