Vim-airline - fonts - what's the equivalent of ~/.fonts?

André0991 · 04-07-2014, 12:11 PM

Hi.

I'm trying to install some fonts in order to fix a (very common) problem on airline (the ">" is with the wrong graphics).

So I came across this page:

https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en...t-installation

According to that page, I have to download some fonts and

"Move your patched font to ~/.fonts/ (or another X font directory)"

This directory doesn't exist here.
Searching for fonts, I found that /usr/share/fonts has some fonts. Should I use this directory? I'm in doubt because with ~/.fonts it wouldn't be required root access.

After that, I'll have also to run fc-cache.

Thanks.

PS: Yes, I saw this thread, but it didn't work for me: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ne-4175457241/

weibullguy · 04-07-2014, 07:28 PM

~/.fonts is not distro specific. I only skimmed the instructions, but you should be able follow them as written on Slackware.

André0991 · 04-08-2014, 06:49 AM

Hello.

Thanks for your answer.

I tried to follow the instructions:

Code:

cd
mkdir .fonts
cd .fonts/
wget https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf
wget https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf
fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts

Output:

Quote:

/home/andre0991/.fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/cache/fontconfig: not cleaning unwritable cache directory
/home/andre0991/.cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/andre0991/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded

The instructions say:
"Move 10-powerline-symbols.conf to either ~/.fonts.conf.d/ or ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/, depending on your fontconfig version"
But my system doesn't have any of these directories, so I created conf.d. Am I right? (I looked at /home/andre0991/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf, but it doesn't say anything about paths)

Code:

cd ~/.config/fontconfig/
mkdir conf.d
cd conf.d/
mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/

After that, I can select the powerlinesymbols font in xfce4-terminal, however, it looks really ugly. The some letters are very spaced from others (for example, "vim" looks like "vi m"). Trying to use powerlinesymbols in Konsole makes strange characters appear on the screen.

I wonder if the problem is with the conf.d directory.

EDIT: Reading the Troubleshooting, I realized that I have to use UTF-8, but I'm confused: bash-4.2$ locale -a | grep en_US
en_US
en_US.utf8

The file /etc/profile.d/lang.sh has a comment line

Quote:

#export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Why UTF-8 instead of utf8?

EDIT 2: Even using en_US.utf8, the problem persists.