Powerline and fonts.

[Andre Klärner]

Hi Yann,

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:36:19PM +0000, Yann Golanski wrote:
> I am trying to get powerline (https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline),
> urxvt, and Terminus fonts to work together without much success. 
> 
> I can get urxvt to load patched fonts (Inconsolata for example) but the
> anti-aliasing makes the terminal look blurry. Trying to use Terminus
> works but I do not get any of the additional symboles. 
> 
> Powerline developers recommend moving to a different terminal which I am
> disinclined to do as urxvt is fits all my other needs.
> 
> Has anyone managed to get this combination working?

I have this combination working with the following .Xresources:

URxvt*font: terminus-14,xft:Terminus for Powerline:style=Medium,xft:Code2000:antialias=false

The key point is that urxvt tries to use terminus first, and if it doesn't
find the symbol (like the ones used by powerline) it will look in the next
one. As I know that everything contained in the Powerline-Terminus except
the powerline symbols is also in the bitmap Terminus I don't see the blurry
stuff and everything that is not covered in Terminus falls back to
Code2000.

If you want you can check out my whole resources under
http://git.ak-online.be/?p=kandre/xsession.git;a=summary

Regards, Andre

-- 
Andre Klärner
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