dotfiles VS powerline

I'm quite a data nerd, so I wanted to track component wear in more detail than Strava allows. Some people here suggested their online web-based gear trackers here on this subreddit, but I was always afraid of trusting them with all the data. As you see, there's a lot of it, and I really prefer to keep this in git rather than manually entering it into a website that can go away.

I have my own simple autorandr-ish thing (more info here: https://work.lisk.in/2020/10/11/xrandr-ux.html) which is then invoked on monitor connect/disconnect via https://xmonad.github.io/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib-0.16.999/XMonad-Hooks-Rescreen.html#v:addRandrChangeHook.

I've seen something similar years ago with Half Life 2 and Duke Nukem 3D, and I think I had to add a manageHook to float the window (https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/94405373da786a715d63b56c9093eded4afccd81/.xmonad/xmonad.hs#L261-L262) and that it helped. Can you possibly try something like that?

https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/b5000bdf88d6c247c2614f606ded47d8e96b4679/.xmonad/xmonad.hs#L457

* pre-selection of entries by looking at URL and focused form field

So in most cases I press a keybinding which invokes passmenu, and then just press enter as the correct entry and field (password/username) is already selected. Quite handy.

Source here if anyone's interested: https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/passmenu and https://github.com/liskin/dotfiles/blob/home/bin/.passlib

Powerline (and airline, as well as all plugins of that kind) offers, among other things, a GUI that helps you manage buffers and tabs. There are plugins that do just that and nothing else, which are best used alongside powerline/airline/etc, for example bufferline.

Powerline Provides a much nicer status line in Vim, including integration with Git to tell you what branch you’re on and the tracking status of the file you’re working on.

powerline includes prompts for bash and zsh that include git info. (despite selling itself as a vim statusline, I believe you can use its shell prompts without using it with vim.)

Could also be a patched font. Some fonts use the private use area of unicode to draw glyphs for use in interface. Check out for example these patched fonts for Powerline on GitHub. Powerline is a status line plugin for vim and it uses text to draw the interface. If you download one, drop it on a font visualizer e.g. fontdrop.info you'll see a range of specific glyphs inside the private use area (E000–F8FF). There's even an Ubuntu logo at E0FF.

You are wrong

Wait until you discover that you can apply powerline to both of them

IBM Plex is an interesting font that I'm looking forward to, and I would like to try it out. However, you may be in similar setup as I am, which relays on Powerline glyphs in order to display vim/statusline/prompt correctly.

Looks like I installed this one via apt-get. To use it, I have this in my ~/.config/fish/fish.config: