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Patched version in microsoft windows

Open lcorsini opened this issue 9 years ago • 14 comments

I'm stuck with windows at work, I tried your patched branch, but without luck, Mintty refuses to see the patched fonts, there is no chance to use them or there is another way to patch them?

lcorsini avatar Jun 22 '15 17:06 lcorsini

@lcorsini I don't know what to say, I don't use windows since '95, but I'll leave this issue open in case someone comes with an answer :smile:

gabrielelana avatar Jun 22 '15 20:06 gabrielelana

I would be glad to ditch windows but I can't atm. The problem seems to be that Mintty desn't see the font as monospaced so it doesn't show in mintty options

lcorsini avatar Jun 23 '15 08:06 lcorsini

There are ways to trick windows into thinking it is monospaced. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

DanielGGordon avatar Dec 22 '15 22:12 DanielGGordon

The thing is I haven't even been able to get the regular powerline patched fonts to recognize all symbols. And I haven't seen anyone who has.

DanielGGordon avatar Jan 13 '16 17:01 DanielGGordon

I'm trying to do this too for the all new Windows Linux Subsystem. I'll update my progress here.


In the meantime, here are some useful resources:

  • https://www.herebedragons.io/bashing-windows
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4orqn6/setting_up_powerline_for_bash_on_windows/
  • http://askubuntu.com/questions/283908/how-can-i-install-and-use-powerline-plugin?newreg=c6b15c8c64e24e3fac09b8ac411b2807

oneezy avatar Jan 03 '17 10:01 oneezy

The Linux subsystem should be an unmodifed ubuntu Linux userspace, so if you install an X-server and a graphical terminal like terminator you could use fontconfig fallback strategy

Il giorno 3 gennaio 2017 @ 11:07:24, oneezy ([email protected]) ha scritto:

I'm trying to do this too for the all new Windows Linux Subsystem. I'll update my progress here.

In the meantime, here are some useful resources:

  • https://www.herebedragons.io/bashing-windows

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4orqn6/setting_up_powerline_for_bash_on_windows/

http://askubuntu.com/questions/283908/how-can-i-install-and-use-powerline-plugin?newreg=c6b15c8c64e24e3fac09b8ac411b2807

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lcorsini avatar Jan 03 '17 10:01 lcorsini

I installed the ConEmu Terminal and it's looking 1000x better! Well, a LOT better then what it was. The icon fonts still aren't showing but ALL the fonts are. Still messing around w/ it...

Bottom Line: ConEmu is amazing and saved the day.

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oneezy avatar Jan 04 '17 00:01 oneezy

@oneezy Did you managed to install these icon fonts? With ConEmu?

Naramsim avatar Jan 09 '17 16:01 Naramsim

Not yet @naramsim

But I'll be sure to report back here when i do

oneezy avatar Jan 10 '17 12:01 oneezy

As a side note, you can use patch fonts on mintty (installed along with MSYS2).

However, it will not give you the option to choose the font in the configuration GUI as windows does not consider it to be a "monospace" font.

But, you can still choose it by manually edit the .minttyrc configuration file.

Anyway the renderring is really bad, I've openned an issue (#37) regarding that.

superbob avatar Feb 27 '17 12:02 superbob

@oneezy So that's ConEmu using the new Linux Subsystem for Windows? That's cool - although I've heard you cannot use the arrow keys in vim while using ConEmu.

DanielGGordon avatar Mar 13 '17 16:03 DanielGGordon

@DanielGGordon yes, that's what the screenshot is. I haven't tested the arrow keys in vim yet

oneezy avatar Mar 15 '17 09:03 oneezy

@oneezy How is the speed? If you just press Enter and get the terminal back - how long does that take? When I had zsh on Babun (Windows 7), it would take 2-3 seconds sometimes. When I was doing this, I remember that Meslo was one of the only fonts that worked correctly. I'm hopefully upgrading my Windows 7 work laptop to Windows 10 today and should give this a whirl.

DanielGGordon avatar Mar 15 '17 14:03 DanielGGordon

@DanielGGordon , I found ZSH to be pretty slow, but further investigating led me to realizing it had a lot to do with the order i wrote the settings in.

Also, I went through a LOT of trial and error to get the Windows Subsystem for Linux working to mimic my previous development workflow. You'll need to get in the Windows Insider Program (it's free) so you can install the most recent build that allows for interopability (the current version of WSL doesn't have it).


There's a great article you should read on this topic called Bashing Windows that gives the exact approach I took (read my comments below also).

Good luck! Let me know how it turns out for you.

oneezy avatar Mar 15 '17 20:03 oneezy