Command line glyphs (ZSH + powerline)

Question

I am currently using Windows 10 with CYGWIN. Its using mintty and running ZSH in xterm-256.

I have been searching all night and cannot find a place to find all powerline glyphs for use in the ZSH prompt, I am very new to this so don't expect me to know anything.

For example, the 'svn branch' and 'git untracked (like 3 dots)'. I don't know whether these are unicode or something or other so any information on what they are and how to use them would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Fonts you are looking for can be found here. Installation instructions from the official documentation:

1. Download the latest version of the symbol font and fontconfig file:

   wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/PowerlineSymbols.otf

   wget https://github.com/powerline/powerline/raw/develop/font/10-powerline-symbols.conf

2. Move the symbol font to a valid X font path. Valid font paths can be listed with xset q:

   mv PowerlineSymbols.otf ~/.fonts/

3. Update font cache for the path the font was moved to (root priveleges may be needed to update cache for the system-wide paths):

   fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts/

4. Install the fontconfig file. For newer versions of fontconfig the config path is~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/, for older versions it’s ~/.fonts.conf.d/:

   mv 10-powerline-symbols.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/

You can find detailed documentation here.