Emacs powerline not displaying arrow

Question

I am trying to configure emacs powerline, after trying multiple times, i still can't get it working correctly as shown in the figure below.

It seems to me that some font is missing in my system, but i don't know which one. I am using Mac El Capitan, the emacs version is 24.5.1.

Can you evaluate `(image-type-available-p 'xpm)` ? It is most likely your emacs build is missing `xpm` image support. — Yuri Steinschreiber, Aug 06 '16 at 05:09
Can you try to evaluate ``powerline-default-separator`` value ? — Mandar Vaze, Sep 22 '16 at 12:18
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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 26 '17 at 09:19

try use following command

# clone
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
# install
cd fonts
./install.sh
# clean-up a bit
cd ..
rm -rf fonts

You may need to manually select your favorite powerline font

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 20 '17 at 18:23

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You may be missing these settings:

(setq powerline-arrow-shape 'curve)
(setq powerline-default-separator-dir '(right . left))
 '(right . left))

edited Dec 20 '17 at 18:23

Toby Speight

answered Dec 20 '17 at 18:03

Rui Figueiredo

2 Answers2