cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/61051

Hi. Please can someone help me with setting up my zsh? I’m having two problems:

  • When using the powerline10k theme, the shell gets stuck on fetching gitstatusd

  • The prompt shows those weird characters in the screenshot

I have already installed powerline fonts. I don’t know what to do next… I appreciate any help. Thanks.

  • DonutVeteran@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Ok, sorry for the late response. Looking through the logs, it seems that the problem may be curl somehow failing to fetch gitstatusd. The script tries fetching gitstatusd-linux-x86_64.tar.gz at several mirrors, from what I can gather, and all of them fail.

    This might be because curl itself is not working. I recall that there were reports of curl not working on Cygwin which I read about somewhere, and Cygwin seems to be what you’re on. I’d check if you can run the curl commands used in the logs manually to fetch the resources at those URLs. So try running:

    curl -q -kfsSL -- https://gitee.com/romkatv/gitstatus/raw/release-v1.3.1/release/gitstatusd-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

    Or:

    curl -q -kfsSL -- https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/releases/download/v1.3.1/gitstatusd-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

    Or any one of those mirror links in the logs, and see what happens.

    • rafael@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      3 years ago

      Thanks for the response. You’re right: curl fails to fetch that file. However, I could manually download it. Do you know where I should extract it to? Thanks.

      • DonutVeteran@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        This thread provides a “manual installation method” you could try before attempting to manually download (as things could go wrong):

        git -C ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k pull
        ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k/gitstatus/install -f

        So in your case, you could modify this to update your powerlevel10k and then run the install script:

        $ git -C zsh_dir/custom/themes/powerlevel10k pull
$ zsh_dir/custom/themes/powerlevel10k/gitstatus/install -f

        The install script can be found here on Github, which also provides clues to how gitstatusd is fetched: it’s actually a binary executable that is placed in a cache directory by the install script. This cache folder is referenced as "${GITSTATUS_CACHE_DIR:-${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/gitstatus}". So, probably your Cygwin home folder/.cache/gitstatus should be where you should try to extract gitstatusd manually.

        • rafael@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          3 years ago

          Extracting the binary to ~/.cache/gitstatus worked! Thank you very much!!! Now there’s only that ugly symbols in the prompt :(

            • rafael@lemmy.mlOP
              1·
              3 years ago

              I installed this font, but the problem persists :(

              Could it be something related to the terminal? I’m using GNOME Terminal 2.31.3

              • DonutVeteran@lemmy.ml
                1·
                3 years ago

                I think it should be alright? It is compatible, maybe try updating GNOME Terminal though. The stable version should be at 3.x.x for most systems.

                Try doing the below after you update, or if you can’t update try it anyways, I guess 😉.

                GNOME Terminal (the default Ubuntu terminal): Open Terminal → Preferences and click on the selected profile under Profiles. Check Custom font under Text Appearance and select MesloLGS NF Regular.1

                And finally try running p10k configure if possible on your system.

                  • DonutVeteran@lemmy.ml
                    1·
                    3 years ago

                    Try restarting the terminal application and zsh, if you haven’t already, after changing the font.

                    I thought of something else too to try. Perhaps GNOME Terminal isn’t rendering Unicode properly. Try setting the character encoding to UTF-8. Terminal -> Set Character Encoding -> UTF-8. If UTF-8 is already set, set it to a different encoding and then back to UTF-8.