Enable powerline fonts with rxvt-unicode and vim-airline
2014-02-05
I recently switched to airline as powerline replacement for vim.
To enable support for powerline-fonts the following steps were needed:
- Download font from powerline-fonts repository repository and copy it to
~/.fonts/
- Update local font cache by running
fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts
- Update
~/.Xdefaults
to use the font for example:URxvt*font: xft:Terminess Powerline:size=12
- Update local X settings by running
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
- Enable powerline fonts in your
~/.vimrc
by addinglet g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1