Using Font Awesome in terminal

slirx · 12-13-2016, 03:29 AM

Here is how font awesome icon is displayed in terminal:
http://i.imgur.com/B59n2qD.png
and sublime text:
http://i.imgur.com/zKrcGpm.png

How can I fix font awesome icon in terminal? Is there a way to do it?

BW-userx · 12-13-2016, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slirx

Here is how font awesome icon is displayed in terminal:
http://i.imgur.com/B59n2qD.png
and sublime text:
http://i.imgur.com/zKrcGpm.png

How can I fix font awesome icon in terminal? Is there a way to do it?

you should be able to just install your font, update cache, then go into your terminal preferences then change your font.

unless you're using something like xterm, where you'd have to edit its config file.

slirx · 12-13-2016, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by BW-userx

you should be able to just install your font, update cache, then go into your terminal preferences then change your font.

unless you're using something like xterm, where you'd have to edit its config file.

Font Awesome is installed, because I can see the icon between and . The problem that the icon is displayed with fixed character width and after the icon overlays it.
I've tried urxvt, termite, xfce4-terminal.

BW-userx · 12-13-2016, 11:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slirx

Font Awesome is installed, because I can see the icon between and . The problem that the icon is displayed with fixed character width and after the icon overlays it.
I've tried urxvt, termite, xfce4-terminal.

I hope this is what you are doing and it helps

After you get up and running, you can place Font Awesome icons just about anywhere with the

and hopefully this

http://askubuntu.com/questions/70022...-character-map

here too

gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts

slirx · 12-13-2016, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

I hope this is what you are doing and it helps

After you get up and running, you can place Font Awesome icons just about anywhere with the

and hopefully this

http://askubuntu.com/questions/70022...-character-map

No, it does not help. The first link is about using Font Awesome in web browser. I need to fix displaying the icon in linux terminal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console), not web browser. The next link doesn't contain anything related to terminal too.

Anyway, thanks.

BW-userx · 12-13-2016, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slirx

No, it does not help. The first link is about using Font Awesome in web browser. I need to fix displaying the icon in linux terminal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console), not web browser. The next link doesn't contain anything related to terminal too.

Anyway, thanks.

that third link I put in there has icon fonts for terminal use

Shadow_7 · 12-14-2016, 01:05 PM

Terminals tend to have fixed width fonts. You might try with urxvt, rxvt with unicode extenstions. Although likely futile IMO if you're not monospace and/or bitmap font wise. Or use the gui versions of emacs / vi.