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Programmable, interactive interval timers (e.g. for working/resting)
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Font / Icon query (question, not a bug!) #20

Closed paul-jewell closed 10 months ago

paul-jewell commented 10 months ago

First of all, many thanks for making this available for all! Quick question: I have installed hammy in emacs 29.1 on Gentoo, and I am not getting the font icons showing correctly - I am simply getting the Unicode boxes. For example, instead of : "Hammy (šŸ…): Break time!", "I get Hammy ([01F345]): Break time!", with the unicode box showing in the standard emacs format (box with 01F over the 345).

Of course, this is not an issue with your code, but I am sure the problem probably lies in my setup. I have tried the following to resolve the problem:

Note: all-the-icons are already installed for dired, and work as expected.

I would love to know what fonts / icons you are using to get the icons correctly displayed in emacs. If you let me know, I would be happy to issue a pull request against the README to explain what to do if you come across the problem I have.

Many thanks! Paul

alphapapa commented 10 months ago

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the kind words. I hope it's useful to you.

About the emojis, the best knowledge I have about a solution is in the Ement.el readme here: https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el#displaying-symbols-and-emojis However, AFAIK Emacs 29 isn't supposed to need those workarounds anymore. So it may have something to do with other parts of your system config. FWIW, I use Debian, and it works for me.

paul-jewell commented 10 months ago

Hi Adam, Happy New Year! I agree with your comments about my configuration. I will start with an empty one, and add stuff in to see if I can identify the problem, then post the solution here.

paul-jewell commented 10 months ago

Ok, so the issue related to configuration of font handling for my user account on this machine. Some time (long ago) I added a local fontconfig file which interfered with the font provision for emacs. Once this file was removed, the problem disappeared, and the correct icons appear, without any configuration in emacs 29.1. So if you are experiencing a problem with emoji presentation on your system, then I recommend you check there isn't a file in ~/.config/fontconfig which is impacting your font selection. Thanks again to Adam for this software, and also the other packages he generously makes available to the community.

alphapapa commented 10 months ago

Thanks, Paul!