Post #1495879
2026-03-09 08:51 UTC
…quite often to the classic Linux console (which has very limited Unicode capabilities) it's not really a good idea to put fancy Unicode characters in it. Also, even though it's often shown in terminals, you cannot use ANSI sequences in it.
With v260 we added a new field to it: FANCY_NAME= – which is just like PRETTY_NAME= and is supposed to be used on modern terminals where Unicode + ANSI sequences are not an issue.
The various systemd tools now prefer it over PRETTY_NAME= when they…
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@pid_eins@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 08:51
…determine that the terminal is powerful enough, and automatically fallback to PRETTY_NAME= otherwise.