From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: xterm vs gnome-terminal and all-the-icons.el Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:11:47 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86shaugxx8.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87lggop6ew.fsf@chopper> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516868025 3942 195.159.176.226 (25 Jan 2018 08:13:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:13:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 09:13:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eecf4-00005O-SR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:13:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eech5-0004QH-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2018 03:15:35 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!nzgate1.xs4all.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:cG6EYX3ISmp5giggM61hPD7aj9Q= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221706 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115823 Archived-At: Yuri Khan wrote: >> I noticed that the emacs all-the-icons.el >> works in gnome-terminal, but not in xterm. >> I'm curious if its possible to get the same >> effect in xterm. Does anyone have >> this working? > > I am not familiar with all-the-icons, but if > it involves a custom font, it will require > a terminal emulator that supports font > fallback. Xterm does not. Shame on you if you don't know what "font fallback" is: A fallback font is a reserve typeface containing symbols for as many Unicode characters as possible. When a display system encounters a character that is not part of the repertoire of any of the other available fonts, a symbol from a fallback font is used instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573