Hyper: Powerline fonts not loading at all on Windows

[flxw]

Hi all,

thanks for bringing a great terminal Emulator on to Windows! With the Linux Subsystem I am loving it - it even has gruvbox.

Unfortunately though, the vim-airline fonts (from https://github.com/powerline/fonts) do not render correctly, and the way it looks the font does not even get loaded (see the second ugly screenshot with the offset cursor when only having set monospace as font. Might hyper perceive the font names differently or only want to load system fonts?!

See the badly/incorrectly rendered font here:

With only the Powerline font set everything breaks:

186 Reports a similar issue, but the fixes suggested there are for unixoid Systems

and not for Windows. The fonts are installed, but at this point I am not sure where the error might arise from?

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My System specs:
Hyper 1.2.1
Electron 1.4.7
win32 x64 10.0.14393

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My .hyper.js: https://gist.github.com/flxw/8916660d9d730729382baa6702736310
My fontsize is set to 12.5 - changing this value does not change anything.

[thasmo]

@flxw Using e.g. Fira Code works for me (Powerline Characters and Ligatures) on Windows.
fontFamily: '"Fira Code", monospace'

[flxw]

Thanks thasmo! That's a lovely font, but it unfortunately doesn't change anything for me.
This bug is a real showstopper for me 👎 With Fira, it looks similar to the not-loaded-font-issues above.

[cdhunt]

@flxw I'm using a Powerline font as well in Windows. No issues, here.. Did you install the font(s) using the install script or some other method?

[flxw]

Hey @cdhunt, that's really great news! I installed the fonts like this:

1. Download from https://github.com/powerline/fonts
2. Extract, and click "Install" on the context-menu. I do have admin rights on my machine

EDIT: Running the installation script did not solve anything for me :(
EDIT: The relevant portion of my vimrc, should it make a difference

" Plugin: Airline
"let g:airline_theme='gruvbox'
let g:airline_theme='base16'
"let g:airline_powerline_fonts=1
set encoding=utf-8

[DanielGGordon]

@cdhunt could you show me the values I need to put into my .hyper.js file? Kind of annoying I can't just select the font from a drop down menu or something.

[cdhunt]

@DanielGGordon Here is my config.

https://gist.github.com/cdhunt/75b0162aa4cb1f11ce2b592e8c324bfa

I don't imagine it would make a difference, but for what it's worth, I used the install.ps1 in the zip to install all of the PowerLine fonts.

[DanielGGordon]

So I didn't install all of them - also I wanted to use some nerd font like this one, but I don't know what value to put in the config to point to this font.

Edit: FuraCode NF seems to work! Although fonts are a bit small, but I dont think you can do anything about that.

[cdhunt]

I believe however the name is displayed in Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts

[flxw]

Hey guys. I used the install script and - whatever the reason may have been in the end - the issue virtually disappeared for me with version 1.3.1. Now the special characters are rendered somewhat incorrectly, but that's a duplicate of #1630, so I'd suggest to close this issue.

Here are my configurations: https://gist.github.com/flxw/424a4eb3609efcdfe4f953dccf6f21eb
The relevant part in .vimrc was to to set let g:airline_powerline_fonts=1

[Stanzilla]

Hey there, please try again with the new Hyper v2 release and open a new issue if the problem stills exists. Thank you!