Add Unicode Icons to Ranger File Manager (see first comment for details). 🖼️ 📂 🎵 🥳

unicode_icons.py

# Unicode Icons in Ranger File Manager
#
# How to install?
# https://gist.github.com/marcbelmont/c12d2fd2519a372d3b347f665b37e74a#gistcomment-3240106

from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function

from itertools import repeat

import ranger.api
from ranger.core.linemode import LinemodeBase

# https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
EXTENSIONS = {}
for extensions, icon in [
    ('py pyc', '🐍'),
    ('yml ini', '⚙ '),
]:
    EXTENSIONS.update(dict(zip(extensions.split(), repeat(icon))))


# https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/081e73152a9391211770fab56676d7d974413ae6/ranger/container/fsobject.py
@ranger.api.register_linemode
class MyLinemode(LinemodeBase):
    name = "unicode_icons"

    def filetitle(self, fobj, metadata):
        if fobj.is_directory:
            icon = '📂'
        elif fobj.extension in EXTENSIONS:
            icon = EXTENSIONS[fobj.extension]
        elif fobj.is_link:
            icon = '🔗'
        elif fobj.audio:
            icon = '🎵'
        elif fobj.container:
            icon = '📦'
        elif fobj.document:
            icon = '📖'
        elif fobj.image:
            icon = '🖼️ '
        elif fobj.video:
            icon = '🎞️ '
        elif 'Dockerfile' in fobj.relative_path:
            icon = '🐋'
        else:
            icon = '📃'
        return (icon + ' ' if icon else '') + fobj.relative_path

    def infostring(self, fobj, metadata):
        raise NotImplementedError

Simple Ranger Linemode Icon Plugin

This plugin will add icons to Ranger. All the icons are Unicode emojis. No special font needed. Tested on Ubuntu with Terminator and Gnome Terminal.

How to install?

Save unicode_icons.py to disk.

export RANGER=~/.config/ranger
mkdir -p $RANGER/plugins/
mv unicode_icons.py $RANGER/plugins/
grep -q 'default_linemode unicode_icons' $RANGER/rc.conf || echo 'default_linemode unicode_icons' >> $RANGER/rc.conf

it showing blocks instead of icons

@amir-mansoor if you copy and paste 🐍 in your terminal. Do you see the icon or not?