visual studio code – Oh-my-zsh terminal icon fails to show correctly on Ubuntu

September 2, 2025admin

After some asking chatGPT I had figured out the issues, it seems installing VSCode through Snap has limitation on the desktop fonts. If anybody faced this issues due to installing vscode through Snap you can fix through the following steps:

Add additional terminal settings:

    "terminal.integrated.rendererType": "canvas",
    "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.linux": "zsh",
    "terminal.integrated.gpuAcceleration": "on"

Copy fonts to system-wide to let Snap VSCode access using terminal:

snap connection code

sudo cp /home/armon/.local/share/fonts/MesloLGS* /usr/local/share/fonts/

sudo cp /home/armon/.local/share/fonts/HackNerdFont* /usr/local/share/fonts/

sudo fc-cache -fv

And the problem should be fixed