Questions for all #emacs and #spacemacs people: why it do this (at the bottom, the powerline I think it's called)
@CobaltVelvet I won't sleep at night until this is fixed
@jordyd @CobaltVelvet you need to get some powerline patched fonts and use those. (Set them up in your .spacemacs, SPC f e d; under dotspacemacs-default-font)
@fabianhjr @CobaltVelvet @arisunz I installed some patched fonts to ~/.local/share/fonts, but I can't get emacs to use them. I tried "Source Code Pro", "Source Code Pro for Powerline", and "Source Code Pro Powerline", none of which fix it
@jordyd @arisunz @CobaltVelvet what distro are you using?
@fabianhjr @CobaltVelvet @arisunz Arch Linux, also I'm using GNOME
@jordyd @arisunz @CobaltVelvet I am not too sure about this but looks like there is a simple fix.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Powerline#Fonts
Just `sudo pacman -S powerline-fonts`
@fabianhjr @CobaltVelvet @arisunz I tried that too but it didn’t seem to work :/
@jordyd @arisunz @CobaltVelvet
Could you `M-x describe-font` in Spacemacs?
@jordyd @arisunz @CobaltVelvet it is fethcing the non-powerline patched font from /usr/share/fonts/
Maybe remove adobe-source-code-pro-fonts and keep the ones you got into ~/.local/share/fonts ?
@fabianhjr @CobaltVelvet @arisunz It now appears to be oblivious to the ones in ~/.local/share/fonts
@jordyd @arisunz @CobaltVelvet I think it will try to fetch system fonts before user fonts. :?
I am also looking for a way to specify the font location to avoid messing with system fonts.
@CobaltVelvet @arisunz @jordyd (Though, I am on Antergos (Arch variant) and I only installed Fira Code since that one comes with support for powerline + ligatures + really nice font.
@CobaltVelvet @arisunz @jordyd a second option could be installing https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nerd-fonts-complete/
and using that one?
@fabianhjr @arisunz @CobaltVelvet I installed this. The install completed "successfully" (0 exit status) but when trying to update the font cache it complained about "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" not existing. I'm going to make that directory and retry, as it's not working
@jordyd @CobaltVelvet @arisunz oh shit, still broken? :S
:|
@fabianhjr @arisunz @CobaltVelvet Yeah idk anymore
@jordyd @CobaltVelvet @arisunz are you using emacsclient / emacs in daemon mode? That seems to be the only current issue with Mode Line.
@fabianhjr @arisunz @CobaltVelvet Unless it's starting a daemon of its own accord, no. I just run it from GNOME.
@fabianhjr @arisunz @CobaltVelvet
$ ps ax | grep emacs
13068 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep emacs
20913 ? Ss 0:00 gpg-agent --homedir /home/jordyd/.emacs.d/elpa/gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon
@jordyd @CobaltVelvet @arisunz ok, I am out of ideas. Sorry. :(
@fabianhjr @arisunz @CobaltVelvet It's alright, and thank you for your help
@jordyd @CobaltVelvet @arisunz good luck with the glitch. Though, maybe switching to develop branch and updating all packages fixes it? :V
It is as a last resort.
@jordyd I think whatever font you're using there doesn't play well with Powerline's glyphs. Look for fonts patched specifically for Powerline.
@arisunz Thank you. The spacemacs installation instructions mentioned Source Code Pro, which I installed, but it doesn't appear to be using it. Maybe there's a font cache or something that needs to be updated
@jordyd https://github.com/powerline/fonts -- these should do
@arisunz I love fonts and will install all of these immediately
@arisunz Oh! I have to *patch* the font...
@arisunz Well, use the patched versions anyway
@jordyd I find spacemacs to be too complex.
@jordyd Is it possible you could just change your mode line height to match? That would at least be less visually jarring
@jordyd i think it's because of font issues? i just left it that way