Please note that this procedure is a hack and it worked for me but please keep in mind that intellij is quite picky about the fonts that it will allow you to use so this might not work for you. So this would need me to setup these fonts for the JRE running my IntelliJ instance. This is not the case for applications that use native UI libraries such as Eclipse which is using GWT. I knew that the jre uses it’s own fonts for applications using it’s own UI libraries, and IntelliJ is such an app.
#Rubymine 8.0 code
When writting code in IntelliJ IDE I tend to also use a lot the Terminal tool window where the symbols did not work even after making them work for the terminal. Out of the box, the characters do not work and I found that I needed a bit of tweaking with my fonts to make them work.įor my OS terminal(MATE Terminal running on Linux Mint 17.2) I found the following from the powerline installation documentation: where I following the instruction in the font-installation section which worked quite nicely. This led to an old fashioned web serfing session, and after a few links, going through Oh My Zsh, I discovered the cool powerline based themes that caught my eye.
I have been using bash for almost 2 decades which felt like a good milestone to look into a new shell so I decided to explore it. I happened to watch Dan North’s Power use of UNIX video where he talks about zsh. You can skip down to the steps if you are not interested to know how I came to need this ).