I3 bar items compressed and cut

[theleapingfrog]

Hello,

Recently the elements at the edge of my i3 bar are bunched up and the power button is cut up. I think this would be fixed in the .config file for i3 but how?

Thanks,

[flyingcakes]

Some guesses:

• are the icon fonts alright?
• did you change your display?

Can you share a picture of how it looks currently?

@theleapingfrog

I think this would be fixed in the .config file for i3 but how?

You should have a bar {...} block in your i3 config file (normally at ~/.config/i3/config)

[theleapingfrog]

Sorry i thought i had included a image . Icons work well I have changed my display but it has been a while back.

[flyingcakes]

@theleapingfrog

Did you recently change fonts in the config?

Also, see this thread:

I3bar icons messed up after update

Hi, I’m using EndeavourOS with i3wm. Today I updated it and there were only two aur packages that got updated, codium and vim and every other package was already up to date. But when I rebooted my system, I noticed that some of my icons had become very small, but not all of them. And that’s same for some of the workspace icons. My config is all the same. Here are some screenshots. [2022-09-04-10:26:44-selection] And here is the part in my config where I configured my i3bar: bar { font pang…

[theleapingfrog]

Nope I haven’t changed the icons.

[theleapingfrog]

I have finished reading the thread and I don’t have ttf or otf font awesome installed.

[theleapingfrog]

I have two displays both of them have bar. I don’t know if this is relevant.

[theleapingfrog]

I have tried increasing the padding in the bar config but it still shows the icon cut. I have fixed the separation by increasing separator block width.

[theleapingfrog]

Found this https://github.com/polybar/polybar/issues/991 which looks similar to my case just that I am using FontAwesome.

[theleapingfrog]

Moving around the items made the power button not appear cut.