I'm running ubuntu with zsh and powerlevel10k and that works just fine on the graphical terminal. I don't really use the TTY terminals, and if I do I can manage to make sense of the broken fonts, so that's not an issue.
However when I connect with putty I get a lot of broken symbology on the terminal.
I have tried to follow this tutorial to fix it but it didn't work. Previously I had installed the same font (the one recommended on the powerlevel10k github page) I installed on ubuntu on the windows machine and set that as the font, that didn't work either. Then I tried following this tutorial, uninstalled the old font (MesloLGS NF Regular) and instead installed the recommended fonts (all four of Meslo LG L DZ Regular|Italic|Bold|Bold Italic for Powerline.ttf) and set them as the font to be used in putty. I get the same broken display.
The broken display looks something like this (hostname, username redacted. They show up okay for me):
instead of like this (made using xforwarding and opening the graphical terminal):
Just using xforwarding and opening mate-terminal all the time is not desirable because of the lag and extra network usage. And it's a really ugly solution anyway.
1 Answer
- Set UTF-8 encoding in KiTTY/PuTTY settings Windows-> Translation.
- Use patched Nerd Fonts, eg Fura/Fira Mono Powerline:
