Font Awesome Issues (especially powermenu)

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tl;dr - what are the font-awesome packages installed by default in EOS i3?

I tried installing some different font-awesome packages to get some icons working in my bar, but apparently that borked some of the ones that display on the powermenu. I realized the cheatsheet online is for font awesome 5, but the config file mentions that it uses 4.7 I believe. Just need to know which FA packages are installed on a fresh install to fix what I messed up (hopefully).

Any other tips for getting more font-awesome icons working without disrupting the existing ones would be great - I wanted to use the openweather script on my bar but several of the weather icons aren’t displaying correctly, possibly because of the version differences.

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awesome-terminal-fonts

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Weird… I still have that package installed, but the power menu icons don’t show up correctly. I’d attach a screenshot but scrot doesn’t seem to work when I have the power menu displayed.

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these awesome font packages are changing all the time… and can interfere with each other…

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could need delay the scrot as powermenu will went of on focus other window

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open a terminal write
scrot -cd 5
will give you 5 sec
open powermenu

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Thanks! Here’s a screenshot, Logout, Reboot and Shutdown aren’t displaying correctly, but they were when I first installed EOS:

powermenu

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i use Font Awesome 6
and seems to work

powermenu

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Interesting… I thought 5 was the latest version? Here are the font awesome packages that come up and the ones I have installed:

2021-12-17-10:28:54-screenshot

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remove otf-font-awesome-4 ttf-font-awesome-4 and otf-font-awesome

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Hmm, that didn’t fix it, even with a logout/login. Removing those didn’t seem to change anything.

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what does the power menu config look like ?

icon

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2021-12-17-110613_3840x1200_scrot

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have you tried downloading awesome font from their website ?

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I haven’t, but I can if that might help… I would think having the packages as they were by default would fix it, but maybe not

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otf-font-awesome is causing issues currently… seems it screws the output in some cases…

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i never use from repo
always use this

font

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I removed that package, but I’m guessing it messed with something that effects the output when I installed it? Any idea how to fix?

I can certainly try that.

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Still no change :expressionless:

At the end of the day it’s not a huge deal since the menu still functions, but it’s definitely annoying.

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strange! i just copy (raw) from here

it work ok + icon work ok … i full updated (today)

this i have installed

community/ttf-font-awesome 5.15.4-1 (183.4 KiB 363.3 KiB) (Installed)
    Iconic font designed for Bootstrap
community/python-qtawesome 1.0.3-1 (708.1 KiB 1.8 MiB) 
    Iconic fonts in PyQt and PySide applications
community/otf-font-awesome 5.15.4-1 (435.2 KiB 1.1 MiB) (Installed)
    Iconic font designed for Bootstrap
community/awesome-terminal-fonts 1.1.0-4 (186.0 KiB 377.3 KiB) (Installed)
    fonts/icons for powerlines
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