Making Powerline Work in Visual Studio Code Terminal

Last updated on Mar 3, 2020 1 min read Visual Studio

The integrated terminal of VScode will show garbled words if zsh is installed but PowerLine font is not set. In order to fix this problem:

  1. One of the patched fonts from Vim-Powerline for the special characters. (if you don’t have any one.)

  2. In your User Settings (Code | Preferences | Settings) add this:

{
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "Hack",
}
Powerline
Linyuan Shi
Linyuan Shi
Lecturer

My research interests include non-equilibrium reactive molecular dynamics simulation and first principles computation.