Install powerline fonts on centOS6.6

Question

I installed recently the patched fonts for Powerline users from the github repository on a centOS6.6 box.

As indicated in the docs I executed the script that ran ok and printed

[statquant@latitude fonts]$ ./install.sh 
Copying fonts...
Resetting font cache, this may take a moment...
All Powerline fonts installed to /home/statquant/.local/share/fonts

And indeed:

[statquant@latitude fonts]$ tree /home/statquant/.local/share/fonts
/home/statquant/.local/share/fonts
├── Anonymice\ Powerline\ Bold\ Italic.ttf
├── Anonymice\ Powerline\ Bold.ttf
├── Anonymice\ Powerline\ Italic.ttf
├── Anonymice\ Powerline.ttf
...

But for some reason gvim is not picking up those fonts, as it the context menu Edit > select font... I have no trace on any *Powerline font.

Any help appreciated

Answer 1

when adding fonts, one should put those fonts in the directory that fontconfig will scan. run fc-list to list available fonts.

the fontconfig user's guide

Answer 2

I solved it, Looking in cat /etc/fonts/fonts.conf I could see

<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>                                                                     
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> 
<dir>/usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF</dir> 
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
<dir>~/.fonts</dir>                                                                             

Then I created a symlink ln -s ~/.local/share/fonts/ ~/.fonts