Powerline
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
55/100
- Activity 71
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5195
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 176
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
14800 stars · 999 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Powerline is a statusline plugin for Vim, tmux, shell prompts, and window managers, and this repository provides pre-patched fonts containing the special glyphs Powerline requires. It is a companion font collection rather than the plugin itself.
Use cases
- install patched fonts so powerline symbols render in my terminal
- fix missing glyphs in vim statusline
- make tmux statusline show powerline arrows
- get monospace fonts with powerline glyphs for shell prompt
- install powerline fonts on ubuntu or fedora
When to choose
- you use the Powerline statusline plugin and see broken characters in your prompt or statusline
- you want a one-script install of many popular patched monospace fonts
When to avoid
- you need Nerd Font icon sets beyond the basic Powerline glyphs
- you do not use Powerline or a compatible statusline plugin
- you need a maintained license-clear distribution - the repo itself has no license file
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
developer-tools terminal-ui theme developer-tools text-editors windows cross-platform cli fonts statusline vim tmux shell-prompt patched-fonts nerd-fonts command-line linux macos
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/powerline/powerline · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0099250fcb51
- homepage: https://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · cc8b3d75fe90
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| powerline/powerline | main | 55 |
| powerline/fonts | plugin | 23 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="powerline/powerline")
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