Font rendering issue urxvt

[BigfootN]

Hello,

I am having problems when using one of your font in urxvt. It sometimes leaves pixels behind. Here is an example:

You can see on the left that there are some kind of pixels. I tried with gnome-terminal and no problem.

Here is my Xresoures:

!------------------
!  URxvt Settings
!------------------

! scrollbar
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*internalBorder: 20

! disable ctrl-shift
URxvt*iso14755_52: false
URxvt*iso14755: false

URxvt*letterSpace: -1
!----------------
!  Xft Settings
!----------------

Xft*dpi: 82
Xft*antialias:  true
Xft*hinting:    true
Xft*rgba:       rgb
Xft*autohint:   false
Xft*hintstyle:  hintfull
Xft*lcdfilter:  lcddefault

!----------------
!  Font Setting
!----------------

URxvt.font: xft:FuraCode Nerd Font:style=Regular:size=11
URxvt.boldFont: xft:FuraCode Nerd Font:style=Regular:size=11

!----------
!  Colors
!----------

URxvt.background: #262626
URxvt.foreground: #ffffff

! Black + DarkGrey
*color0:  #282828
*color8:  #928374
! DarkRed + Red
*color1:  #cc241d
*color9:  #fb4934
! DarkGreen + Green
*color2:  #98971a
*color10: #b8bb26
! DarkYellow + Yellow
*color3:  #d79921
*color11: #fabd2f
! DarkBlue + Blue
*color4:  #458588
*color12: #83a598
! DarkMagenta + Magenta
*color5:  #b16286
*color13: #d3869b
! DarkCyan + Cyan
*color6:  #689d6a
*color14: #8ec07c
! LightGrey + White
*color7:  #a89984
*color15: #ebdbb2

URxvt.color24:  #076678
URxvt.color66:  #427b58
URxvt.color88:  #9d0006
URxvt.color96:  #8f3f71
URxvt.color100: #79740e
URxvt.color108: #8ec07c
URxvt.color109: #83a598
URxvt.color130: #af3a03
URxvt.color136: #b57614
URxvt.color142: #b8bb26
URxvt.color167: #fb4934
URxvt.color175: #d3869b
URxvt.color208: #fe8019
URxvt.color214: #fabd2f
URxvt.color223: #ebdbb2
URxvt.color228: #f2e5bc
URxvt.color229: #fbf1c7
URxvt.color230: #f9f5d7
URxvt.color234: #1d2021
URxvt.color235: #282828
URxvt.color236: #32302f
URxvt.color237: #3c3836
URxvt.color239: #504945
URxvt.color241: #665c54
URxvt.color243: #7c6f64
URxvt.color244: #928374
URxvt.color245: #928374
URxvt.color246: #a89984
URxvt.color248: #bdae93
URxvt.color250: #d5c4a1

I am under archlinux and I installed the fonts from the AUR (nerd-fonts-complete).

Thank you very much in advance

[Jeansen]

Do you use any other fonts? Eg, vim dev icons? Maybe post your .vimrc, too. So far I could not reproduce your problem, though I am on vim and not neovim.

[BigfootN]

Thank you for your answer.

Here is my vimrc:

"
"   /$$    /$$ /$$                      /$$$$$$                       /$$$$$$  /$$
"  | $$   | $$|__/                     /$$__  $$                     /$$__  $$|__/
"  | $$   | $$ /$$ /$$$$$$/$$$$       | $$  \__/  /$$$$$$  /$$$$$$$ | $$  \__/ /$$  /$$$$$$
"  |  $$ / $$/| $$| $$_  $$_  $$      | $$       /$$__  $$| $$__  $$| $$$$    | $$ /$$__  $$
"   \  $$ $$/ | $$| $$ \ $$ \ $$      | $$      | $$  \ $$| $$  \ $$| $$_/    | $$| $$  \ $$
"    \  $$$/  | $$| $$ | $$ | $$      | $$    $$| $$  | $$| $$  | $$| $$      | $$| $$  | $$
"     \  $/   | $$| $$ | $$ | $$      |  $$$$$$/|  $$$$$$/| $$  | $$| $$      | $$|  $$$$$$$
"      \_/    |__/|__/ |__/ |__/       \______/  \______/ |__/  |__/|__/      |__/ \____  $$
"                                                                                  /$$  \ $$
"                                                                                 |  $$$$$$/
"                                                                                  \______/


" ************* plugins *************

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')

" -- syntax theme
Plug 'chriskempson/base16-vim'
Plug 'morhetz/gruvbox'

" -- dev icons
Plug 'ryanoasis/vim-devicons'

" -- vim airline
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline'
Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline-themes'

" -- improve syntax color
Plug 'sheerun/vim-polyglot'

" -- snippets
Plug 'sirver/ultisnips'
Plug 'honza/vim-snippets'

" -- start page
Plug 'mhinz/vim-startify'

" -- code check
Plug 'scrooloose/syntastic'

" -- format
Plug 'Chiel92/vim-autoformat'

" -- code completion
Plug 'Valloric/YouCompleteMe'
Plug 'artur-shaik/vim-javacomplete2'
Plug 'airblade/vim-rooter'
Plug 'tomlion/vim-solidity'

" -- complete brackets, parentheses, ...
Plug 'jiangmiao/auto-pairs'

" -- nerdtree
Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plug 'jistr/vim-nerdtree-tabs'

call plug#end()

" ************* editor configuration *************

filetype plugin on
filetype indent on
syntax on
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set smarttab
set splitright
set nohlsearch
set autoread
set t_Co=16
set scrolloff=8

" ************* eye-candy configuration *************

" show line numbers
set nu
highlight LineNr ctermfg=26
highlight LineNr ctermbg=25

" colorscheme
set background=dark
colorscheme gruvbox
let g:gruvbox_contrast_dark="hard"

"if filereadable(expand("~/.vimrc_background"))
"  let base16colorspace=256
"  source ~/.vimrc_background
"endif

"colorscheme base16-default-dark

" ************* Keymaps *************

let mapleader = ","

nnoremap <leader>f :NERDTreeFocus<CR>
nnoremap <leader>t :tabnew<CR>
nnoremap <leader>p :tabprevious<CR>
nnoremap <leader>n :tabnext<CR>

" ************* JavaComplete configuration *************

autocmd FileType java setlocal omnifunc=javacomplete#Complete

" ************* Autoformat configuration *************

autocmd FileType vim,tex,xml let b:autoformat_autoindent=0

let blacklist = ['xml', 'conf']
autocmd BufWritePre * if index(blacklist, &ft) < 0 | :Autoformat

" c, c++
let g:formatdef_my_custom_clang = '"clang-format"'
let g:formatters_c = ['my_custom_clang']
let g:formatters_cpp = ['my_custom_clang']

" ************* Airline configuration *************

let g:airline_powerline_fonts = 1
let g:airline_theme = 'base16'

" symbols
if !exists('g:airline_symbols')
	let g:airline_symbols = {}
endif

" extensions
let g:airline_extensions = ['tabline']
let g:airline#extensions#default#section_truncate_width = {}
let g:airline#extensions#syntastic#enabled = 1
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1

" left sections
let g:airline_section_a = airline#section#create(['mode'])
let g:airline_section_b = airline#section#create(['%t'])
let g:airline_section_c = airline#section#create([])

" center
let g:airline_section_getter = ''

" right sections
let g:airline_section_x = ''
let g:airline_section_y = airline#section#create(['filetype'])
let g:airline_section_z = airline#section#create(['%3.3l'])
let g:airline_section_error = airline#section#create(['syntastic'])
let g:airline_section_warning = airline#section#create([''])


" tabline seperations
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#left_sep = 'î‚°'
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#left_alt_sep = 'î‚°'
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#right_sep = ''
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#right_alt_sep = ''

" tabline options
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#show_close_button = 0
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#buffer_nr_show = 0
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#show_buffers = 0
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#show_splits = 0
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#show_tab_type = 0
let g:airline#extensions#tabline#show_tab_nr = 0

" ************* YouCompleteMe configuration *************

let g:ycm_add_preview_to_completeopt = 1
let g:ycm_show_diagnostics_ui = 0
let g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_completion = 1
let g:ycm_confirm_extra_conf = 0

" ************* Startify configuration *************

let g:startify_custom_header = [
			\"   _   _                   _            ",
			\"  | \\ | |                 (_)           ",
			\"  |  \\| | ___  _____   ___ _ __ ___   ",
			\"  | . ` |/ _ \\/ _ \\ \\ / / | '_ ` _ \\ ",
			\"  | |\\  |  __/ (_) \\ V /| | | | | | | ",
			\"  \\_| \\_/\\___|\\___/ \\_/ |_|_| |_| |_| ",
			\]

let g:startify_list_order = [
			\ ['  ---------  FICHIERS  ---------'],
			\ 'files',
			\ ['  ---------  SESSIONS  ---------'],
			\ 'sessions',
			\ ['  ---------  PROJETS  ---------'],
			\ 'bookmarks',
			\ ]

let g:startify_enable_special = 0
let g:startify_files_number = 5

" projets
let g:startify_bookmarks = [
			\ '~/Documents/Prog/mdata/'
			\ ]

" ************* Syntastic configuration *************

" basic settings
let g:syntastic_always_populate_loc_list = 1
let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list = 1
let g:syntastic_check_on_open = 1
let g:syntastic_check_on_wq = 0

" disabled checkers
let g:syntastic_enable_latex_checker = 0
let g:syntastic_enable_tex_checker = 0
let g:syntastic_tex_checkers = []
let g:syntastic_enable_xml_checker = 0

" checker ---- C
let g:syntastic_c_checkers = ["clang_tidy"]

" checker ---- C++
let g:syntastic_cpp_checkers = ["clang_check"]

" ************* NERDTree configuration *************

autocmd VimEnter *
                \   if !argc()
                \ |   Startify
				\ |   execute 'NERDTreeTabsOpen'
                \ |   wincmd w
\ | endif

let g:nerdtree_tabs_open_on_console_startup = 1
let g:nerdtree_tabs_synchronize_view = 0

As you can see, I am also using vim dev icons.

I also tried with a normal font (not patched) and no problem.

Thank you again for all your answer and help

[Jeansen]

Hm..yes. My bad - still used xterm. It seems to be a font thing. URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:size=11 works for me. Your font does not show me the file symbols, just empty boxes.

[Jeansen]

Btw: Vim dev icons plugin should be the last plugin loaded :)

[BigfootN]

Thank you for your answer, so I loaded the vim vim dev icons in last and it seems to work for now. I'm closing the issue. If I have any more problems related to this issue I'll reopen it.

Thank you again very much.

[BigfootN]

Hello again,
I'm really sorry, but I'm still having problems. I took another shot:

As you can see on the left, there are still those little vertical dots.

Thank you again

[Jeansen]

No need to be sorry. Have you tried another font like the one I suggested?

[Jeansen]

Also I would suggest to try vim 8 and post your results here.

[BigfootN]

Thank you for your help again.

So I took a shot with vim 8 and the dejavu font:

It's quite different because the vertical dots now seem to stand near the arrows.

Thank you very much again for all your help

[ryanoasis]

@BigfootN Thanks for your screenshots. Honestly I am not sure what's going on there. I can try to take a look in some time but not sure when that'll be.

[Jeansen]

Hm...interesting. FuraCode Nerd Font works in xterm, but not in rxvt - I do not see any symbols. In Xterm I have with any font I tried to problem that NERDTree cuts symbols in half. I actually went away from NERDTree, because it is so damn heavy ....

Could you try this out? https://github.com/powerline/fonts
And then put URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:size=11 in your .Xresources file.

This works totally fine for me in rxvt. Even to cut symbols are not present.