thimc / vifm_devicons

File and directory icons for Vifm (vi file manager)

File and directory icons for Vifm (vi file manager)

Prerequisites

This plugin uses glyphs from a patched NERDfont. So in order for this plugin to work you need to install a NERDfont and set it as the default font for your terminal.

This plugin is inspired by Alexander Jeurissen's ranger_devicons which can be found here: https://github.com/alexanderjeurissen/ranger_devicons

Installation instructions

There are two ways to install this, the choice is entirely yours but I recommend the latter because when updates are released you simply need to update a git repo instead of messing with the actual vifmrc file.

Way 1:

Append the favicons.vifm file to your ~/.config/vifm/vifmrc file and restart Vifm to take affect.

Way 2:

Append the following line to your vifmrc file:

source /path/to/your/repos/vifm_devicons/favicons.vifm

Restart Vifm to take affect.

vifm_devicons's Issues

Does not work on FreeBSD

Hello, these icons do not work on FreeBSD vifm at all and I have no idea why, where should I start with debugging this? As shown on the images below, after adding devicons to vifmrc, or sourcing the devicons file, I can see, that in vifm, all the file/direcotry names move slightly to the right, as if there was an icon next to them, but there isn't any. No idea where to start. I have the fonts installed, for example "lsd" command shows pretty icons, no problems there. I can also paste the icons into console and they get shown correctly. By default, I use xterm, I tried also alacritty, and urxvt, no change.

.py files icons work only when they are under the cursor

Cpp files work just fine as the icons can be seen even when the files are not under the cursor. But for python files ,

The icons wont show up when they are not under the cursor