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Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
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Backlight font icons not showing correctly #2192

Open LorenzoBettini opened 1 year ago

LorenzoBettini commented 1 year ago

I've just started using Waybar in Hyprland, and I've installed otf-font-awesome. Icon fonts show correctly, but the ones concerning brightness:

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I haven't touched the style.css, which is the default one.

Am I missing something?

fleminra commented 1 year ago

tl;dr: try this instead:

        "format-icons": ["🌑", "🌘", "🌗", "🌖", "🌕"]

These icons were changed in this commit: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/commit/25536f70a44f5b3e5829c31037a1ddb4708f7622, with the comment "use moon phases for backlight format-icons."

The symbols in this commit are various characters between U+E38D and U+E3D3. Those code points are in the Unicode "Private Use" block. The Private Use block is where Font Awesome put a lot of (all of?) its symbols. But in my version of Font Awesome (Debian 12's 5.0.10+really4.7.0~dfsg-4.1), there is nothing at these code points.

I have not yet found which other font might have moon-phase symbols at those code points.

However, a lot of these moon-phases were approved as part of the Unicode 6.0 standard. So it seems to me it would be better to use those, than these other Private Use symbols from some unknown font. So that's what my above suggestion is.

LorenzoBettini commented 1 year ago

tl;dr: try this instead:

        "format-icons": ["🌑", "🌘", "🌗", "🌖", "🌕"]

I'll try them, thanks!

I have not yet found which other font might have moon-phase symbols at those code points.

Sorry, I've always forgotten to update this issue: this ttf-arimo-nerd provides the missing icons for moon-phase symbols at those code points (of course, you have to install otf-font-awesome as well for most of the other icons).

However, a lot of these moon-phases were approved as part of the Unicode 6.0 standard. So it seems to me it would be better to use those, than these other Private Use symbols from some unknown font. So that's what my above suggestion is.

I agree we should not rely on private use symbols :)

claman commented 1 week ago

Thanks very much @fleminra ! This also resolved my issue.