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.