title: powerline status-line on ubuntu server 14.04 (no gui)
body: <p>First of all, is it even possible to get powerline looking like on the image below in a Non-GUI Ubuntu installation? </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jMohr.png" alt="http://i.stack.imgur.com/jMohr.png">  </p>
  
  <p>So far I've installed it using Vundle, but removed it in favor of the pip installation, but as shown below, I cannot get the proper symbols to show, only the ugly place holder blocks:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/STUcB.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Per the official installation instruction I downloaded and installed the patched fonts in ~/.fonts, after trying "Fontconfig" unsuccessfully. I also refreshed the font cache for the system, and restarted vim, but it stayed the same. The only changes I made on .vimrc were...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; set t_Co=256
  &gt; rtp+=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/powerline/bindings/vim/ 
  &gt; laststatus=2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The instructions I followed:
  <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/283908/how-can-i-install-and-use-powerline-plugin">askubuntu-powerline</a>
  and <a href="http://powerline.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation/linux.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">powerline-docs</a></p>
  
  <p>Ubuntu Server 14.04 </p>
  
  <p>Vim - 7.4.52 </p>
  
  <p>Xterm = 256 color</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>