Yazpt mostly just works on recently-released Linux distros, with the distro's standard terminal emulator and default settings, but sometimes a little tweaking is needed to get its Unicode characters and/or emoji rendering well.
- CentOS 8.3, CentOS Stream 8 and 9, installed as a "server with GUI"
- Debian 10.9 and 11.x, installed with defaults ("Debian desktop environment")
- Kali Linux 2021.1 and newer
- KDE neon
- Kubuntu 20.04 and newer
- Linux Mint 20.1 and newer (Cinnamon, MATE or XFCE)
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 and newer (KDE Plasma 5)
- openSUSE Tumbleweed (KDE Plasma 5)
- Pop!_OS 20.04 and newer
- Solus Budgie 4.3
- Solus GNOME 4.3
- Zorin OS 16.1
In some other distros, everything almost just works, but yazpt's Unicode characters are rendered a bit awkwardly in the distro's standard terminal with default settings, and the fix is as simple as checking or unchecking a single checkbox:
- Solus MATE 4.3
- Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 and newer
- Ubuntu MATE 20.04 and newer
In GNOME Terminal, just click Terminal in the menu bar > Preferences > Unnamed (or whatever your profile is named) > Text tab > check Custom font. In MATE Terminal, click the Edit menu > Profile Preferences > General tab > uncheck Use the system fixed width font.
If yazpt's Unicode characters look awkward (e.g. some of the Unicode characters are too small, or too big, or characters look squished together), try switching terminal fonts. Yazpt looks great in most popular monospace fonts, so just pick one and try it out. You can also run the .yazpt_check function at a prompt to see how the various characters look. If you don't feel like experimenting, though, DejaVu Sans Mono is a good choice that's usually preinstalled, or available via package manager; it's easy to download if not.
If the yolo preset's emoji don't render properly, sometimes you can fix it by installing the Noto Color Emoji font. It's usually available via package manager, or you can download it and install it manually.
If yazpt looks okay but has no colors, you probably need to adjust your $TERM environment variable. For example, if it's empty or xterm, change it to xterm-256color, or if it's screen, try screen-256color.
In many distros, XTerm doesn't render emoji well, so yazpt's yolo preset tries to detect those cases, and substitute emoticons for emoji. But you can often upgrade from emoticons to fairly decent monochrome emoji in XTerm, by installing the Noto Emoji font. If the distro has no GUI way to install fonts, copy it into the ~/.local/share/fonts directory, and run fc-cache -f; either way, restart XTerm afterward.
Regardless of distro, using XTerm is kind of miserable unless you put a little time into configuring it. For convenience, Yazpt bundles an .Xresources file containing XTerm settings. It's easy to install.
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In Terminology, yazpt's Unicode characters are rendered a bit poorly with the default font; you can fix it by changing the font to, say, DejaVu Sans Mono (right click anywhere in a Terminology window > Settings > Font). Terminology also renders the yolo preset's emoji as awful little monochrome line drawings, so yazpt automatically switches to emoticons instead.
In elementary OS's default terminal emulator, Pantheon Terminal, everything almost just works (including color emoji), but yazpt's Unicode characters are rendered a bit awkwardly. That can be fixed by changing the terminal's font to DejaVu Sans Mono, which is among the pre-installed fonts.
Xfce Terminal doesn't render emoji well on EndeavourOS, so the yolo preset falls back to emoticons. You can get full-color emoji by installing the Noto Color Emoji font: sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji
Yazpt's Unicode characters aren't rendered very well by default, in either GNOME Terminal or XTerm. The solution is to install the DejaVu Sans Mono font: sudo dnf install dejavu-sans-mono-fonts
QTerminal doesn't render emoji well, so the yolo preset falls back to emoticons. You can get monochrome line-drawing emoji by installing the Noto Emoji font.
In Xfce Terminal, the yolo preset's emoji are rendered as monochrome line drawings by default; for the full-color experience, install fonts-noto-color-emoji in MX Package Installer.
Konsole renders emoji as monochrome line drawings. You can upgrade to proper color emoji by adjusting some font settings.
Konsole renders emoji as monochrome line drawings. You can upgrade to proper color emoji by adjusting some font settings.