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Terminals, Part 1 | |
November 05th, 2017 | |
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I've been using konsole for my terminal for a while, mainly | |
because I was a KDE user and it came with it. I really like that | |
it supports the ligatures that are in my font of choice, Firacode. | |
I also like that it supports all the colors I want, and | |
I customized that scheme really well. Beyond that, I don't like | |
that it's part of a window manager i don't use anymore. I don't | |
like the amount of resources it pulls in. I don't like that | |
I can't change the settings anymore because I hid the menu and | |
can't remember how to un-hide it (it should be a dotfile!). | |
So, I've been trying to go to xterm instead. Woo. As of tonight | |
I got my xresources file working well enough that my fonts are at | |
the right size and my color scheme is solid. I have been having | |
a hell of a time getting unicode characters to display properly, | |
though. After lots of reading, I think I know the problem: I can't | |
figure out how to format my firacode fontName line to include the | |
character encoding. I changed it to -misc-fixed-... and it's | |
coming out right. I thought I could use xfontsel to figure it out, | |
but I guess that only works with bitmap fonts, or maybe I don't | |
know what I'm doing. xlsfonts gives me a nice list, but only for | |
system fonts (I think) not those in a ~/.fonts folder. | |
Next steps: get firacode working with unicode in xterm or uxterm. | |
Then, double check that tmux copypasta still works like it should. | |
Finally, get copy & paste working over SSH/mosh. | |
Any advice from the peanut gallery? | |