Firamono doesn't install as "for powerline" font

[peey]

Link to the font https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono

[peey]

I'm not sure what the problem is. I realized the powerline variant is installed as "furamono" (why?)

but while it shows up in my fc-list, it doesn't show up in my font selector apparently.

[peey]

I think firamono in this repo overrides the system default firamono installation somehow (perhaps it exposes the name without the "powerline" prefix)?

Anyways, it requires a system reboot to actually get it working.

[pm0u]

I'm a bit confused by this as well, I installed using the install script, verified the files are in place.. however (at least in XTerm) I only have Fira Mono which appears to be coming from /usr/share/fonts -- a quick fc-list | grep Fura does show them though, with the correct titles.. And all other powerline fonts are there. I have a feeling it is because this is an opentype font and not a truetype font possibly?

[pm0u]

I decided this must be some limitation of Xterm and Gnome terminal. switched to Terminator, and was able to see / set the font no problem.

[lethiandev]

I managed to turn on the "Fira Mono for Powerline" font on gnome-terminal, but it appears that this font isn't monospace, as the powerline symbols are misaligned, just take a look:

The commands I used to enable the font:

dconf dump /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/ # copy profile ID i.e. :b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9
dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:xxxxxx-your-profile/font  "'Fira Mono for Powerline 11'"

[nsh07]

I have the same problem. My Ubuntu system doesn't even consider this font as being monospaced. GNOME term also doesn't let you use this font