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I installed the powerline plugin from b-ryan/powerline-shell: A beautiful and useful prompt for your shell

I works properly on gnome-shell

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However, it failed to display correctly on alacritty terminal jwilm/alacritty: A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator

What's the problem it might be?

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Wizard
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1 Answers1

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install a nerd font

manual

Install this font: JetBrainsMono

automated

This script will download and install 3 fonts (by saving them to a fonts dir

#!/usr/bin/env bash

function is_mac() {


local uname="$(uname -a)"


[[ "$uname_" =~ Darwin ]] && return
  false
}


function git-repo-release(){
    repo=${1? must provide a repo ex casonadams/walh }


version=$(curl \
    -sSL "https://api.github.com/repos/${repo}/releases/latest" \
    | grep '"tag_name":' \
    | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'\
)

echo $version



}


function install_fonts(){
    local repo="ryanoasis/nerd-fonts"
    local version=$(git-repo-release $repo)
    local _dir="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts"
    local url


if is_mac; then
    _dir="${HOME}/Library/Fonts"
fi

mkdir -p $_dir
pushd $_dir

rm -rf "${_dir}/*"

# FONTS TO INSTALL
fonts=(
    "FiraCode"
    "JetBrainsMono"
    "SourceCodePro"
)

for font in "${fonts[@]}"
do
    url="https://github.com/${repo}/releases/download/${version}/${font}.tar.xz"
    curl -sSL $url | tar -Jvx
done

popd



}


install_fonts

Setup alacritty

Grab this file alacritty.yml from github repo.

mkdir -p ~/.config/alacritty
curl -L https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/alacritty.yml -o ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

Then update the alacritty.yml file with the example below

vi ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.yml

# Font configuration (changes require restart)
font:
  # copy fonts to ~/.local/share/fonts (linux)
  # copy fonts to ~/Library/Fonts (mac)
  normal:
    # family: "JetbrainsMono Nerd Font"
    # family: "SauceCodePro Nerd Font"
    family: "FiraCode Nerd Font"
  size: 16
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