gnome-terminal renders the unicode symbols (arrows) in my prompt different from urxvt:
They are displayed across the whole line's height, have less spacing in-between, but more appropriate spacing at the end (there is a space char after them).
Edit: the missing space at the end was triggered by having an escape code, e.g. %b for non-bold in zsh, at the end of RPS1. Removing it or adding a space after it fixed this particular issue.
My urxvt font config:
URxvt.font: xft:Ubuntu Mono:pixelsize=16, \ xft:monospace, \ xft:Ubuntu Mono for PowerlineThis applies also to other symbols like ↳.
I have noticed that lilyterm behaves like gnome-terminal (caused by vte), while konsole, xterm etc behave like urxvt.
Is it possible to configure urxvt to do the same?
I am using rxvt-unicode-256color 9.19-1 on Ubuntu 14.04. gnome-terminal is more recent (from Debian testing), and lilyterm is built from source.
An example prompt with symbols:
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1 Answer
The different heights are expected, just like the issue that too wide symbols are replaced with a square symbol..
I've asked about this on the rxvt-unicode mailing list a while ago (Q4 2004), and created a patch, but it was rejected:
The patch/branch is available at . It will make rxvt-unicode not replace too wide symbols with a square icon, but just display them - without special handling. Therefore you will have to add a space after it to display it completely (otherwise it gets cropped).
I've asked to include it into Arch's rxvt-unicode-patched:
