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