Category: Linux

making the hack terminal font work properly on fedora 39

whbeebe

A followup to the last article, this time for Fedora 39 with the Cinnamon desktop running in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine.

The directions for setting up Powerline for Fedora are here: https://fedoramagazine.org/add-power-terminal-powerline/ . Once set up, then go back to the Powerline Fonts GitHub repo and clone, then execute the installation script as documented here: https://github.com/powerline/fonts . Because the complete directions are for Debian-based distributions, you don’t have to execute the instructions before the clone. The Fedora Magazine article will help you set up Powerline.

Unfortunately, there is no easy way to get a screenshot of the terminal like there was in Ubuntu, but at least with the Cinnamon desktop there is a screen shot utility bundled in that is easy to find and use.

making the hack terminal font work properly on ubuntu 23.10

whbeebe

My journey with Ubuntu 23.10 on the Raspberry Pi 5 continues. Today I finally cleaned up the fonts so that they look good to me. I also got the terminal prompt set up to my satisfaction. I use what is known as the Powerline Hack fonts. They can be found here on GitHub: https://github.com/powerline/fonts .

The GitHub page also includes full directions for setting up an Ubuntu environment as well as how to clone and then install their fonts. Make sure you follow them.

Furthermore, you need to add the following line somewhere in your .bashrc file; mine is at the very end.

source ~/.local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh

This will set up the terminal prompt to use Powerline.

And here we have btop running in a separate terminal using the Hack font.

As a bonus I discovered that if you right click the top of any application that isn’t Firefox, the resulting drop-down dialog has an entry for screenshot as the first entry. That’s how I made the two terminal screenshots in this post.