Nerd-fonts: Iosevka Nerd Font works in polybar, but not in urxvt

[adriencarbonaro]

🎯 Subject of the issue

I'm using Iosevka Nerd Font for my polybar config and in my urxvt terminal. It works like a charm in polybar but in urxvt, some symbols don't appear (but the same ones appear in polybar).

🔧 Your Setup

• Iosevka Nerd Font (Iosevka Nerd Font Complete.ttf)
• urxvt
• Linux - Ubuntu 18.04

★ Optional

My polybar config (the white dots is the symbol I want to display in urxvt)

font-0 = "Iosevka Nerd Font:pixelsize=13;3"

My urxvt

URxvt*font: xft:Ioveska Nerd Font:pixelsize=21

[kierun]

urxvt256c-ml*font: xft:Iosevka\ Nerd\ Font:pixelsize=11

Works fine for me with the above in ~/.Xdefaults…

[adriencarbonaro]

I don't know why it doesn't work for me. And most of all I don't get why it works in polybar and not urxvt

[kierun]

Did you escape the spaces?

[adriencarbonaro]

Yes. Sadly it didn't do the trick. Plus the rest of the characters worked even without it.

[kajzersoze]

Other Nerd fonts working in urxvt ?

[adriencarbonaro]

With Ubuntu Nerd Font the symbols work but the font itself is weird.

[kajzersoze]

For me none of the Nerd fonts worked, font itself is ok but there are squares instead of symbols.
Until I found a patch which corrects that problem.
If you are using gentoo you can find the ebuild here:
https://github.com/kajzersoze/rxvt-unicode
You can find the same patch in the AUR for Arch.
For other distros I don't know the situation.
You can try it, there's a high chance that it would solve your problem.

[adriencarbonaro]

Thank you but I'm not on Arch or Gentoo ...
But glad to know that worked for you.

Could someone check the Ioveska patch to solve this ? It doesn't work with SauceCodePro neither and same with InconsolataGo

[adriencarbonaro]

I just tried with Iosevka Nerd Font in terminator and everything works just fine. So I think the problem doesn't necessarily comes from the font but from URxvt.

terminator :

URxvt :

[ryanoasis]

Could you try a true mono variant (one with a Mono suffix)?

Also URxvt I have had issues with ambiguous width charts. Refer to https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/Terminal-Emulators#urxvt

[adriencarbonaro]

I'll try this and let you know !

EDIT :

With Iosevka Term Nerd Font Complete Mono.ttf it works with the circle and most of the symbols that didn't work before. The symbols are kind of small but I can get over it as it works.

But still some icons appear as squares even with this one.

We can close this one for now as it works with most of them.

Thank you

[davidsierradz]

This one worked for me:
URxvt.font: xft:Iosevka Term:style=Light:pixelsize=12:antialias=true:hinting=true

[shaunrd0]

Hi, sorry to necro but I struggled to get this working for a pretty long time, so posting what finally fixed this issue for me on Manjaro running i3wm, hope this can help anyone lurking. I'm using urxvt to start tmux, but you could leave out the -e tmux -u section below and probably get the same result.

Some context - I noticed adding the font to my .Xresources and xrdb ~/Xresources wouldn't work but when ran within a terminal urxvt -fn 'SauceCodePro NF' it would load any Nerd font without issues. Since I'm already using i3wm I had the $TERMINAL environment variable set, so I just needed to make some changes.

Fix -
In my .bashrc, I included these exports

export FONT='xft:InconsolataNerdFont'
export TERMINAL='urxvt -fn '$FONT' -e tmux -u'

This worked fine for me since this is my only font. For some reason editing the .Xresources wouldn't load the font, even though I checked fc-list for the correct names and reloaded with xrdb. Also, I struggled to get any font with spaces in the name to export correctly. I'd be interested in a better solution if anyone has one, but for now this works for me. This was a headache for a while, I was looking at ditching urxvt all together and got this to work, though it is a bit of a hack, I'll take it for the time being.