Hello! I have changed my PROMPT variable for bash and zsh in the following:
TRIANGLE=$'\uE0B0'
COLOR_1="#089B89"
COLOR_2="#FCFCFC"
COLOR_3="#3B4045"
PROMPT="%K{$COLOR_1} %n@%M%F{$COLOR_1}%K{$COLOR_2}$TRIANGLE%F{$COLOR_1} %~%F{$COLOR_2}%K{$COLOR_3}$TRIANGLE%f%k " #%K{#1BA58A}%F{black}$TRIANGLE
and I’m using the Noto Sans Mono fonts, but this happens on other fonts as well.
How can I get rid of the white lines before the triangle? should I use a specific font?
I could do it in a few seconds with GIMP.
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Have you tried with the Nerd Fonts?
https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads
Noto Nerd will contain Noto Sans/Serif/Mono etc. Notably it’s hard to ctrl+f on that page since most of them don’t have text names, so just scroll to ‘N’.
Its been a while since I had a setup with the prompt like that but I think you may need a patched font for it.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32443522/triangular-background-for-bash-ps1-prompt
They happen because the font is not patched property, your best bet is getting the nerd fonts and trying those, popular fonts will generally look nicer.
I installed FiraCode Nerd Fonts, FiraMono Nerd Fonts and Hack Nerd Fonts from here, and only FiraMono was able to not display that vertical line. I suspect the line is caused by the “Smooth fonts” setting in the profile settings > appearance, because unsetting it hides the line in other fonts (but the fonts looks terrible). thanks for the help!
replying to @yote_zip@pawb.social because the direct reply failed:
I ctrl+F “Noto” and as it returned 0 results I just assumed they weren’t there… thank you!! however, these fonts, as many other, still have this line issue. only FiraMono fonts didn’t:
Very strange. I wonder if it’s not a font glyph issue but a font-width issue or something. Beyond getting Nerd Fonts I’m not sure what else to try, sorry!
I tried installing xfce4-terminal, and there it is displayed well with any font, so I guess it’s a Konsole problem… I’ll try to ask in the KDE community, thanks for your help!
