From d5efd9fb430507112d197332984335bcc0b4d7e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dixius99 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:36:23 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] I was having a lot of trouble getting the powerline symbols to display in iTerm2 the way they do in the screenshots. I added some info on what I had to do to fix. --- FAQ.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index 03590fb..f50615f 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ If you are using rxvt-unicode, try using an odd font size, 11, 13, 15 etc. in yo If you are using vim in the Terminal on OSX, check that the environment variables `LC_ALL` and `LANG` are set to a sensible value (such as en_US.UTF8). If `:echo &encoding` does not show `utf8` there is a very good chance that these settings are not correct. +If you are using vim in iTerm, make sure transparency is turned off in the iTerm preferences, and that the minimum contrast slider is set to the lowest position. In iTerm2, also make sure that you set both the regular font and the non-ASCII font to a patched powerline font. + If you are using fontconfig, make sure bitmap fonts are not disabled. That rule, if exists, is usually under /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf for linux users, which might be a symbolic link. If that's the case, remove that link so that bitmap fonts are available system-wide. Also make sure Terminal uses the same font style (e.g. Meslo) as specified in your vimrc.