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stuartlangridge / gnome-shell-clock-override

Override the Gnome Shell clock with a new time format or text of your choice. Works with new versions of Shell such as 3.18
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Bell icon not displaying anymore #35

Closed farzadmf closed 5 years ago

farzadmf commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I was having fun :) with this good extension, and I really liked the bell icon, but for some reason, I'm not able to see that icon any more :(

In my taskbar, I see blank, like this: image

And, when I open the settings, it's now like this: image

And this happens while I was able to see the bell icon before.

Thank you in advance.

da2x commented 5 years ago

This is likely an issue with your custom font.

farzadmf commented 5 years ago

@da2x can you please explain a bit more? How can I troubleshoot this? Because it was working fine, but I don't know how it started to appear as blank. Which font do you mean by "custom font"?

Thank you

da2x commented 5 years ago

Unicode emojis require that you have a compatible font installed. I see you've customized your desktop quite a bit, including replacing the default Cantarell font face. Double-check that you have installed a font that support emojis. Double-check that you haven't installed a font that display blank emojis. Try resetting all your GNOME desktop customization.

farzadmf commented 5 years ago

@da2x You were right! I have installed font-manager, and in its settings, I had enabled Antialias: image

which apparently causes the bell icon to go away.

Can you tell me why that's happening, or is there a way to enable antialiasing to have smoother fonts, and be able to see the icon, because, to be honest, fonts look much smoother.

This is the "normal" font: image

And this is the antialias one: image

The second one looks much better, I think. It would be great if I could have the best of both worlds :)

da2x commented 5 years ago

I'm guessing that enabling that option forces you to use a specific font and that font doesn't support emoji characters. You'll have to ask the developer of font-manager exactly how that works and if he can whitelist the emoji fonts.

farzadmf commented 5 years ago

Thank you @da2x for your very quick replies. Closing this one as you have addressed my issue :+1: