I recently started using Arch Linux and just installed Powerline and Fish (version 3.0.0) last week. In my terminal, which is Termite (version 14), there's a large (horizontal) space between the shell prompt and where my cursor is when inputting commands that is quite bothersome.
As additional information, I'm using OMF with the bobthefish theme. When I first installed and used the theme, I didn't notice any change, so I don't know if it's working properly. It does say that it is the active theme though.
It wasn't like this before I installed Powerline. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any other discussions on similar problems.
This is how it currently looks in a default-sized terminal:
I was thinking that it could be a problem with my font, as I just checked and my font in the termite .config
file is Hack at size 9. When I use a Powerline font, however, it doesn't render correctly in the terminal. I tried doing both this way:
font = "Ubuntu\ Mono\ derivative\ Powerline" 11
And this way:
font = Ubuntu Mono derivative Powerline 11
In the terminal config file, but neither display properly. Perhaps the powerline fonts are not in the correct folder. They are located in
~/.local/share/fonts
In fact, other fonts, located in /usr/share/fonts
also don't render correctly.