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Hello! I have changed my PROMPT variable for bash and zsh in the following:

TRIANGLE=$'\uE0B0'
COLOR_1="#089B89"
COLOR_2="#FCFCFC"
COLOR_3="#3B4045"
PROMPT="%K{$COLOR_1} %n@%M%F{$COLOR_1}%K{$COLOR_2}$TRIANGLE%F{$COLOR_1} %~%F{$COLOR_2}%K{$COLOR_3}$TRIANGLE%f%k " #%K{#1BA58A}%F{black}$TRIANGLE

and I'm using the Noto Sans Mono fonts, but this happens on other fonts as well.

How can I get rid of the white lines before the triangle? should I use a specific font?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could do it in a few seconds with GIMP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried with the Nerd Fonts?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

Noto Nerd will contain Noto Sans/Serif/Mono etc. Notably it's hard to ctrl+f on that page since most of them don't have text names, so just scroll to 'N'.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They happen because the font is not patched property, your best bet is getting the nerd fonts and trying those, popular fonts will generally look nicer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I installed FiraCode Nerd Fonts, FiraMono Nerd Fonts and Hack Nerd Fonts from here, and only FiraMono was able to not display that vertical line. I suspect the line is caused by the "Smooth fonts" setting in the profile settings > appearance, because unsetting it hides the line in other fonts (but the fonts looks terrible). thanks for the help!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its been a while since I had a setup with the prompt like that but I think you may need a patched font for it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32443522/triangular-background-for-bash-ps1-prompt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

replying to @[email protected] because the direct reply failed:

I ctrl+F "Noto" and as it returned 0 results I just assumed they weren't there... thank you!! however, these fonts, as many other, still have this line issue. only FiraMono fonts didn't:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very strange. I wonder if it's not a font glyph issue but a font-width issue or something. Beyond getting Nerd Fonts I'm not sure what else to try, sorry!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I tried installing xfce4-terminal, and there it is displayed well with any font, so I guess it's a Konsole problem... I'll try to ask in the KDE community, thanks for your help!

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