Discussion on: Making Powerline Work In Visual Studio Code Terminal

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Lazarev iLya • Jun 19 '19

When I add "Menlo for Powerline" in settings, VSCode say "The terminal only supports monospace fonts."

Matty Stratton • Jun 19 '19

Hmm. I just tried this again (on a recently updated VS Code) and it worked for me. This is on OS X; what OS are you on?

Lazarev iLya • Jun 19 '19

Ubuntu

Randy Gupta • Jul 15 '19

I have the very same issue here and I can't get the powerline fonts working on VS code with ubuntu.

:-(

Lazarev iLya • Jul 15 '19

Try setting: "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "monospace",

Josep • Aug 20 '19 • Edited

still not working...

Edited: My Solution.

instead of moving the font file to hidden folder .fonts in user home do this in ubuntu

sudo mv Menlo\ for\ Powerline.ttf /usr/share/fonts/

then sudo fc-cache -vf /usr/share/fonts/

I'm using ubuntu 18.04 at the moment of writting this, hope it helps.

Dzintars Klavins • Sep 15 '19

Works for Fedora 30 as well!. Tnx.

Simon Larsen • Jul 30 '19

I had the same problem. What worked for me was setting "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Menlo for Powerline" and restarting Visual Studio Code. Making sure not to press the "monospace" dialog that Visual Studio Code presents as this would set "terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "monospace"

Kevin Blank • Feb 14 '20

What can i do if i have pressed monospace dialog? ive set the terminal.integrated fontFamily to Menlo for Powerline but it still doesnt work....

Simon Larsen • Feb 14 '20

It's been a while now. But ensure the settings remains between VScode reboots. Personally I am currently using "MesloLGM Nerd Font" instead

Ismael Amaral • Sep 16 '21

My VSCode now works fine with zsh. Thank you.

dolemoine • Oct 22 '19

Thx! I was facing the same issue and restarting vscode after setting "terminal.integrated.fontFamilly" to "Menlo for Powerline" solve the problem as the popup dialog wouldn't show anymore!