Display issue with oh-my-zsh agnoster theme

Question

I've added the theme in the zshrc file like so:

ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

But it ends up looking like this:

I'm on Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. What am I missing?

Answer 1

You just need to install a font that contains these characters. for example, you can install Powerline fonts using this command:

sudo apt-get install fonts-powerline

That worked for me as well.

Answer 2

As stated on the agnoster-github-page you need either a

• Powerline-patched font
• Font that contains the characters needed

Your currently used font seems to be missing the \ue0b0 char. It looks different from what it should look like (A full-line-height one-char-wide right pointing triangle)

I would look into some of these fonts:

• Patched fonts for Powerline users
• Being a fan of not using patched fonts I prefer Hack and FiraCode