Putting Nerd Font Icons To Good Use In The Lf File Manager

By default lf has a really lazy icon theme by that I mean it does the absolute bare minimum, it has an icon for files and an icon for folders and that's it. However, it's really easy to improve this by making use of some of the Nerd Font icons, obviously you'll need a supported font but if you have one you can get a much clearer picture of the files in your file manager.
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[@BrodieRobertson]

I enjoy throwing out these really niche videos from time to time, I feel like for people who need help with random application specific problems like this it has a lot of value. But anyway why did you decide to start using lf and if you're not already why are you at least interested in it.

[@azulfenix7]

hello thanks for tutorial, but, where is lfrc in archlinux i can not find it..

[@LavalleeKyle]

You should do a video on how to install and configure polybar. I followed your compton configuration and learned an insane amount. Keep up the good work, love the stuff!

[@BrodieRobertson]

From nothing to complete bar. I like the idea

[@BrodieRobertson]

Actually I did a fairly in depth video on polybar a few months back kzbin.info/www/bejne/aGbakqmnfaqmj6M I'm not sure what else I could say that I didn't cover in this video, besides I guess my new modules.

[@awabqureshi814]

Needed this, thanks!

[@BrodieRobertson]

Glad to help

[@senninscorpion]

Wow, you went deep on your digging about icons.

[@henninb]

I still like lf, best file manager for my workflow. I am excited to see which terminal you switch to from St. I have moved to alacritty from urxvt. Great video.

[@BrodieRobertson]

I've tried to use vifm, not a big tbh. Lf right now is my favourite terminal file manager by far.

[@applePrincess]

I might be too late to comment here, but I do anyway! LS_COLORS are used to determine what colour should ls (as an example) outputs. so like, broken symlink is red. man dir_colors or /etc/DIR_COLORS would give you some information.

[@gustavocruz1761]

Just a small question. How did you enable the borders in lf? I've searched the documentation but found nothing about this customization option. Cool vid btw, I'm starting to use lf as part of my daily workflow, but I would like to have a setup similar to yours, seems really nice.

[@BrodieRobertson]

set boxdraw true should enable it

[@gustavocruz1761]

@@BrodieRobertson Thanks a lot! Indeed, it was the drawbox setting. Just arrived at the channel. Very helpful content and tools you are showing here. I'll check the channel for future content and thanks for sharing!

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@gustavocruz1761 no hassle, I'm glad it's helping

[@gavenblsn4753]

Update this video. only way i could set icons was placing `colors` file inside the `.config/lf/` directory.

[@dominikheinz2297]

How can we change the color of a specific icon? So we can have the icon be green for C# files, blue for VB files, and so on..

[@BrodieRobertson]

export LS_COLORS="*.cs=32:*.vb=34" Honestly the best place to find this documentation is in the man page for a program called Exa, it does a really good job of explaining it. Doing this will overwrite the initial colour scheme so make sure you reset the directory colours as well.

[@_smhmd]

​@@BrodieRobertson, what about docs for those colors themselves (e.g. 38;5;125). I don't understand them nor have I found a hex to that format converter.

[@_smhmd]

@@BrodieRobertson > The 38;5;n colours are determined by your terminal colour scheme Could you give resources to read on this? I know it could be hard given that we all learn stuff on deeply nested comments on webpages we will never see again.

[@kropotkinvore316]

@@_smhmd this does a good job of explaining it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

[@iancuninghame9163]

The documentation has been changed to say $LS_COLORS instead of $LS_ICONS, must've been a typo

[@chyldstudios]

not all heroes wear capes

[@rustmc]

whats the preferred package to install the nerd fonts icons on arch? i dont really want nerd-fonts-complete

[@BrodieRobertson]

A lot of the fonts aren't packaged separately, I think hack nerd font might be but a lot of them you'll have to manually install.

[@xllvr]

"Not documented that well" More like not documented at all

[@BrodieRobertson]

It at least tells you the name of the variable that's some documentation

[@xllvr]

@@BrodieRobertson Fair enough

[@muizuvais]

I am getting chinese characters instead of the icons does anyone know of a solution?

[@techvishnuyt]

same issue

[@davoudarsalani1888]

It seems the page meant LS_COLORS since they are both written almost the same way

[@BrodieRobertson]

That would make sense actually

[@uyohn]

Isn't sticky a folder permission setting? Basically it should copy your folder permissions to newly created subfolders / files instead of using the default permissions.

[@BrodieRobertson]

I wasn't sure but that makes sense.

[@kostas_]

I thought sticky (the +t flag) basically set a directory's permission to be like /tmp (ie only the owner can rename/delete). Am I thinking of something completely different?

[@isufshaqiri3977]

Can you recommend me fonts it doesn’t work for me

[@anytrant2610]

please make video on luakit browser

[@fuseteam]

ohw suckless is intentionally not documented very well

[@ChipAltmanxD]

Deleted my first comment, sorry I got excited 😉

[@BrodieRobertson]

I didn't even see it