Problem with Icons in Konsole

[kaefert]

Expected behavior

The icons should show out of the box on installation and completely. Or the font packages should at least be marked as optional dependency.

Actual behavior

I've installed lsd on my Manjaro KDE laptop. At first I only got empty boxes instead of icons. After reading a bit I found I could get some icons by installing ttf-font-awesome and all of them by installing ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols.

Though those icons look cropped in Konsole, and don't show at all in tty (which shows variously sized filled boxes instead).

I've also talked about this issue in the manjaro forum:
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/replacement-for-ls-lsd-ls-deluxe-icons-problems/74887

And I've aso reported the issue with Konsole here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404128

[Peltoche]

Hi @kaefert ,

Thanks for the report. The way your icons are splitted is weird indeed. Which terminal do you use? Can you try on an other one in order to check if it's an issue with your terminal?

[kaefert]

Hello @Peltoche !
Yes, it seems to be an issue only in "Konsole" (using version 18.12.1 = default KDE terminal).
I tried "Terminator" (version 1.91.6) which doesn't have this problem.

In either of those two terminals when I select the icons with the text selection tool I see there are two spaces between the icons and the following file name. The first of those two is "covered" by the second part of the icon in "Terminator" but is completely blank in "Konsole".

If I copy some terminal output of either of those containing icons into "Kate" (default KDE text editor) the Icon's will "break" the monospace layout and make lines with icons have a longer visual length then lines with the same number of characters without icons.

If I copy into "gedit" I see not spaces but special character boxes "00 20" after the icons (and there also they break the monospace grid)

In the tty (non graphical environment) I have another issue with icons:

[Peltoche]

Thanks for all the feedbacks!

For the issue with Konsole I don't know if we can do anything. It seems to be a bug in Konsole. For the tty I guess the issue is related to the font used by default. Some configuration with the setfont command should do the trick.

It would be a good idea to document these bugs, I make an issue.

[kaefert]

thank you for the friendly support!
Could you be a bit more specific about how to employ the setfont command? I have no experience with that stuff..

[Peltoche]

Sorry but I don't have any experience at all in font configuration... I tried some stuff but I didn't succeed.

I just found some useful links:

• How to install manually a font
• How to configure a font

I will probably try later but for now I don't have the time for it, sorry. I you found any solution please keep us informed.

[xircon]

This is a bug in konsole - it also applies to oh-my-zsh/powerlevel9k

Powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k#971

[ghost]

Same Problem in URxvt-unicode. This are my fonts:
URxvt.font:xft:TerminessTTFNerdFONTMono:size=12

[emorevival]

I've got the same problem in st as well. Running on Archlabs i3, came out of the box like this

I'm using the mono font

[finex]

Hi, I've found this, I don't know if it is useful: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390650

Edit: some other are reporting this problem: Powerlevel9k/powerlevel9k#727 (with links to more bug report)

[matthiasbeyer]

I also have problems in xterm:

Not sure whether this is the same bug or something else.

[emorevival]

my problem was fixed after cloning the nerd-fonts repo and running install.sh. It's huge, it takes ages, but it solved the problem. May be solvable by patching whatever font lsd uses for its icons but I needed the entire thing for something else anyway.

[eikeschott]

Have the same issues on Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon using Terminator.
lsd

lsd -la

[DCdeBrabander]

Got same icon issue as @eikeschott (and @matthiasbeyer ?)

I installed the .deb (running Pop OS! which runs Ubuntu 18.10 underneath)
and I use lsd like this:

Open for suggestions :-)

[dummefil]

@DCdeBrabander, @eikeschott please read Prerequisites and don't make unrelative to issue posts. Thanks.

[Cory-Watson]

Yakuake also seems to be truncating the lsd icons like Konsole does...

[BobbyBabes]

I just installed from the Arch Community repo, and the icons show up as boxes. This is in Yakuake, which is based on KDE Konsole.

In Konsole, clipped icons are displayed like with the others :

[Cory-Watson]

@BobbyBabes do you have any of the Awesome fonts installed? I've had better luck with otf-font-awesome (ttf-font-awesome had trouble with whitespace aka %0020, mainly in i3)

[BobbyBabes]

@Cory-Watson I was laready looking into this one : https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts. Found it through the AUR https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/awesome-terminal-fonts/.

[BobbyBabes]

A little improvement. Yakuake now also displays clipped icons. Also, tried with 2 other Awesome fonts installed from the Arch repo. But exactly the same results, Yakuake and Konsole both display clipped fonts. Thanks for trying to help out.

Now in Yakuake :

[Cory-Watson]

@BobbyBabes, turns out I had aur/awesome-terminal-fonts 1.1.0-2 installed as well.
Konsole and Yakuake both seem to clip off the ends of the lsd icons.

I'm a big KDE fan, but as for terminals I use terminator more than anything else. It seems to handle the lsd icons fairly well...

[BobbyBabes]

You're right that's a great file manager, and so was Thunar. I remember those from when I was a CrunchBang and ArchBang user.
I'm going to uninstall the Awesome fonts. Tell you why. Compare the first 2 screenshots that I posted, to the third one. Notice the slightly off triangles at the end of each folder name in the third one ? I have a hunch that that somehow happened because of the Awesome fonts installation (one of the three that I have installed). After that, I'm also uninstalling lsd because I just found out that it doesn't support the --time-style= option of ls. I usually specify long-iso or even full-iso because I need a year in the date.

EDIT:
The problem with the slightly off triangles is indeed caused by installing Awesome Terminal Fonts. It has not caused by lsd.

The problem is that the ttf-hack, awesome-terminal-fonts, and powerline-fonts (the triangles) are displayed as italic, after installing the Awesome Terminal Fonts. After uninstalling the Awesome Terminal Fonts, the font would still display as italic in Konsole and Yakuake. The weird thing is that in Konsole and Yakuake the Hack font is still configured as regular, although it displays as italic. A change from regular to bold, and back to regular fixed this. I could reproduce all this 3 times in a row.

@matthiasbeyer Show the world that you are from the Dark Ages with your thumb down.

[dumbPy]

This is what it looks on my machine. upper one is suckless-terminal and lower is gnome-terminal
Can't figure out how to fix it. I patched UbuntuMono (after cloning nerd-fonts and using it's install.sh script). That basically messed up my other fonts but the icons are still cropped. Also tried installing awesome-terminal-fonts , didn't help.

font-awesome and powerline nerd-font are not in options in the nerd fonts install script. 😞

[eclipseo]

It's fixed in Konsole v19.03.80: https://phabricator.kde.org/R319:ed6d8b702fd590d83d3b1db25bf2d1245b1cae33

You can backport this patch if you want https://phabricator.kde.org/file/data/3tu5ac4qtnfxofcrbbmr/PHID-FILE-ut2qllmgagq25jvwdmgn/D18784.diff

[Zardoz89]

Strange... LSD works out of the box on Kubuntu 18.10 with Firacode font

I use by default unicode icons as Firacode lacks of some icons that lsd uses, but for me it's ok.

[Cory-Watson]

@Zardoz89 which terminal are you using?

[Zardoz89]

Konsole and Yakuake. The capture is Konsole that comes with Kubuntu 18.10

[romunov]

Fixed after updating Konsole to 19.04.2 (see here).

[Cory-Watson]

Can confirm fixed with Konsole 19.04.2

[416207298]

My icon has show this way, how to fix it?

[NamHyeongKeol]

My icon has show this way, how to fix it?

[KvizadSaderah]

same, if I get it right, it's a font issue? i've got same on debian/ubuntu/mac ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[s3rgeym]

I have same shit after i install kde then delete gnome.

[zwpaper]

Hi @tz4678 , I can't see your problem with your picture posted. this issue is related to a konsole bug #118 (comment) which is fixed #118 (comment), and a font issue #118 (comment), both of them are fixed, I am locking this issue, open a new one and describe your problem if you still have problem with lsd