Wrong icons on blocklets

[diogoalmeida]

Hi,

I've been struggling to setup i3xrocks such that blocklets render their icons/glyphs correctly. In some cases, like with cpu-usage, the icon isn't rendered while for others the icons are just swapped. See screenshot:

This corresponds to the following configuration:

 ~/.config/regolith2/i3xrocks/conf.d  ls 
01_setup      20_keyboard-layout  50_memory   80_microphone  90_time
02_cpu-usage  50_disk-capacity    80_battery  80_volume

Any tips on how I can fix this issue? Thanks in advance!

[kgilmer]

Hi @diogoalmeida I'm not sure if you're having issues with the built-in blocklets or you're customizing them. (also assuming Regolith 2.x) In either case your bar font must be set to a nerdfonts If it's the latter, you need to specify the font glyph character from your configured bar font. I use gucharmap application to select the font and find the glyph I want for a given block, but web or other ways can also be used to copy and paste the character.

[diogoalmeida]

Hi @kgilmer , thanks for the quick reply.

Indeed I am on Regolith 2.2. I installed it on top of my existing Ubuntu 20.04 system, following these instructions . I am having issues with the built-in blockets. The only customization I have done so far was to specify my own conf.d as in the original message.

I am using the "dracula" look. I have the font JetBrains Mono installed, which if I understand correctly is the font for the bar configured here.

However, if I paste the config file to Gedit, an set it to JetBrains Mono Medium, I get the following output:

Apologies if this is just showing my lack of knowledge of handling fonts. I am happy to modify that configuration with the icons I wish to have in my system, but I wonder whether there could be an issue with the config file?

[kgilmer]

Another detail is that between 1.x and 2.x is when the nerdfonts change was introduced. This broke all of the blockets because the unicode character codes representing glyphs changed. It may be that somehow glyph values are coming from a 1.6 config? You could check this for the cpu-usage blocklet. Here is the baseline icon config: https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-i3xrocks-config/blob/master/scripts/cpu-usage#LL48C42-L48C60

You can see what the glyph value is w xrescat i3xrocks.label.cpu. You may have the older glyphs if you copied or are continuing to use the Dracula look files from 1.6. You can compare your local copies to what's here: https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-look-extra/tree/main/usr/share/regolith-look/dracula

[diogoalmeida]

Many thanks for the detailed answer. I will give it a go next week and update the issue once I try it out.

[diogoalmeida]

Update:

Indeed I seem to have been mixing regolith1.6 configs with regolith2. I tried to purge regolith-i3xrocks-config and reinstall, which didn't fix the issue, but fully purging regolith, rm-ing all of the leftover regolith directories and reinstalling following the instructions in the regolith2 page sorted my issue out and now I have a beautiful set of icons :)

Thanks for bearing with me. I am sure that this can be solved in a more elegant way, but hopefully this thread will be useful to someone else.