Issue with Agnoster git branch icon

[govindkailas]

I am using the Agnoster theme, powerline10 fonts are installed. I see a square symbol instead of the git branch symbol.

 echo "$PS1" | cat -v
\[^[]633;A^G\]\[^[[0m\]\[^[[0;40m\] gkailas@\h \[^[[30;44m\]M-nM-^BM-0\[^[[0;44;30m\] \w \[^[[34;42m\]M-nM-^BM-0\[^[[0;42;30m\] M-nM-^BM-  main \[^[[0;32m\]M-nM-^BM-0 \[^[[0m\]\[^[]633;B^G\]

What could be going wrong?

[akinomyoga]

You need to configure a powerline font supporting U+E0A0 in the terminal you use.

[govindkailas]

I'm on WSL , terminal from vscode. Any suggestion on which font should be used/supported?

[akinomyoga]

In the first place, did you configure any font in the VS Code terminal? U+E0A0 is a part of the basic set of powerline fonts, so it should be supported by presumably all the powerline fonts. I suspect that you just installed powerline fonts in the system but did not specify one for the VS Code terminal.

[akinomyoga]

Also, please note that the VS Code Terminal supports the triangle symbols by default, so the triangle symbols are displayed even when no powerline font is specified. The correctly shown triangle symbols do not mean that a powerline font is enabled in the VS Code Terminal.

[govindkailas]

I followed this https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/appearance
As soon as I add other fonts it shows this small pop-up window in the corner saying Terminal support only monospace

[akinomyoga]

That popup also appears while typing the font name when the font name is incomplete. If the branch symbol (U+E0A0) is correctly shown after finishing inputting the font name, you don't need to care about the error message. If it doesn't still show the branch symbol, the font name might be wrong. Could you check it again? Note that font names containing whitespaces need to be quoted within '...'. Also, you may specify monospace as a fallback. For example, 'Your Powerline Font Name', monospace.

[akinomyoga]

May I ask how did you "install" the powerline fonts?

What kind of powerline fonts do you install? There are many powerline fonts including powerline/fonts and others. Are the powerline fonts you installed the ones from powerline/fonts? If this is the case, the instruction on README of powerline/fonts is the way to install the fonts in the remote WSL system, so it doesn't make the fonts available to VS Code which is a client in the Windows subsystem.

You need to install the fonts in the Windows subsystem, i.e., you need to download the TTF files corresponding to the font you would like to use and install these TTF files through the Windows interface.

[govindkailas]

I installed it by cloning the repo and running install.ps1 . I figured out that the fonts were getting installed with a different name, opened MS Word and noticed the name was Fira Mono for Powerline. Updated it as the Terminal Font family and it worked :)

[akinomyoga]

Great!