The PragmataPro Font has some really killer examples where they render == as a single character and clean up a lot of other stuff.
Would any Linux terminals support this? And are there any alternatives to PragmataPro?
asked Apr 21, 2016 at 18:27
1 Answer
So there are a few open source fonts targeting programmers that support ligatures, namely
However, very few opensource terminals that run natively on Linux yet support this. But you can find an current list in the FiraCode docs
Kitty I am using Kitty on
i3and I really love itBlack Screen (slow in browser terminal emulator that runs on node)
Konsole (terminal editor that uses Qt)
QTerminal (terminal editor that uses Qt)
No support
answered Apr 22, 2016 at 0:55
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9I did read somewhere that vte terminals doesn't support ligatures. Why that?– ptkatoDec 28, 2016 at 15:43
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Would these terminals also support things like sparkline fonts like: github.com/aftertheflood/sparks or github.com/figs-lab/datalegreya May 10, 2018 at 11:09
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PragmataPro is designed to be beautiful without antialiasing, it's a shame that antialiasing cannot be disabled in Kitty :/– MichaëlOct 26, 2020 at 23:05
gnome-terminalfeature request useful: bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762832