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gabrielelana / awesome-terminal-fonts

Tools and instructions on how to have awesome symbols in a terminal with a monospace font
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need instructions in doc on how to work with fallback method or test #44

Open Choongkyu opened 7 years ago

Choongkyu commented 7 years ago

Hello,

I had installed this package from Arch's repo but am having trouble seeing whether it works or not. I thought since it's included in the official repo that Arch would include direction if not a trail of links to follow. I checked /etc/fonts/10-symbols.conf and saw the following after installing the package:

<fontconfig>
  <alias>
    <family>PragmataPro</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Pomodoro</family>
      <family>FontAwesome</family>
      <family>Octicons</family>
      <family>Icomoon</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

so I copied and pasted the above to a newly created file: ~/fontconfig/fonts.conf, following advice that I got from irc. Thanks for your work.

gabrielelana commented 7 years ago

Hi, thanks for your feedback

What would have made your task easier? I mean something that I can do in this repository or report to the Arch package maintainer

Choongkyu commented 7 years ago

thank you so much for building this. As someone who's not too versed in configuration and someone who wants to get their prompt looking exactly like yours as a starting point, I was hoping that simply typing pacman -Syu awesome-terminal-fonts would get me there on my Arch Linux machine.

I think part of my confusion lies in how much of a role awesome-terminal-fonts plays in making your screen have the sweet looking status bar/line with the git status and a very simple use-case with one glyph would be helpful. Like, I noticed that powerline was referenced as an inspiration for this repo, so I inferred from that that this repo or package from Arch Linux can take a vanilla bash prompt to what you have in your screenshot. But I'm now leaning towards the conclusion that the screenshot is from a machine with powerline and perhaps some other packages already installed.

Just any sort of clarity surrounding the objective of the repo and a rough guide on getting a user like myself to a mvp version of the repo would be very helpful and much appreciated. I'm not sure if this is the kind of feedback you were looking for but I'm also very appreciative of any feedback you may have regarding my feedback.