No icons appear in urxvt

[madjo80]

I'm trying to set up colorls on my linux-machine, and so far the application is working, but I lack the knowledge on how to get the icons to appear in my urxvt window.

Here's the font-line from my .Xresources: URxvt*font: xft:DroidSansMonoForPowerline Nerd Font:pixelsize=15:antialias=true:hinting=true:autohint=true This line works fine, it uses the proper typeface, but sadly the icons all appear as boxes.

Have I missed something, or is urxvt simply not capable of showing the icons?

[athityakumar]

Hey @madjo80! Thanks for filing this issue. Try doing the fixes indicated in this discussion. 😄

[athityakumar]

Ping @madjo80 - Did you try the above fix?

[madjo80]

in the end I switched to another less fickle terminal emulator. There were other issues that I encountered with urxvt.

[sachinchavan9]

any solution @athityakumar @madjo80 ?, I'm also facing same issue ! I don't want to switch another terminal :(

[avdv]

@sachinchavan9 what did you try? did you follow the advice of setting the letter spacing?

What is the output of urxvt --help 2>&1 | grep options:?

[tashvikb]

@sachinchavan9 what did you try? did you follow the advice of setting the letter spacing?

What is the output of urxvt --help 2>&1 | grep options:? perl,xft,styles,combining,blink,iso14755,unicode3,encodings=eu+vn+jp+jp-ext+kr+zh+zh-ext,fade,transparent,tint,pixbuf,XIM,frills,selectionscrolling,wheel,slipwheel,smart-resize,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,scrollbars=plain+rxvt+NeXT+xterm

[avdv]

Try with letterSpace set to 5. This makes it work for me. (run urxvt -letsp 5)

edit: But that looks really awful...

Better just use the mono font variant from Nerdfonts, e.g.:

urxvt -fn 'xft:SauceCodePro Nerd Font Mono:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:hinting=true:autohint=true'