Some time ago, I realized that some of my icons were broken on my bar and power menu. Checking with the i3 config, I have font pango: Noto Sans Regular 10 near the top, and the same line later in the config, nested in the bar section (below).
#start of bar section
bar {
font pango: Noto Sans Regular 10
position top
tray_padding 0
status_command i3blocks -c ~/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf
colors {
separator $red
# bar background color
background $bg
# text color used for blocks that do not have a color specified.
statusline $yellow
# workspaces section
# border backgr. text
focused_workspace $aqua $aqua $darkgrey
inactive_workspace $darkgrey $darkgrey $yellow
active_workspace $darkgrey $darkgrey $yellow
urgent_workspace $red $red $bg
}
}
#end of bar section
Checking font-manager(aur), there’s no font name Noto Sans Regular. Plenty of other Noto Sans fonts, though. I tried reinstalling noto-fonts(aur) through yay, but to no avail.
From what I see, there are two separate issues here. One is the terminal fonts. And the second is the fonts on the i3bar. Let’s deal with each one separately.
What terminal and terminal fonts are you using in this screenshot?
If I’m not mistaken, Source Code Pro is not a nerd font. It is the original unpatched version of the Source Code Pro font. The patched (or “nerd”) version of Source Code Pro should be referred to as SauceCodePro, I think.
If fc-list | grep "Sauce" returns an empty list, then you should install ttf-sourcecodepro-nerd, and then go to your xfce4-terminal’s preference and change the terminal fonts to SauceCodePro.
Regarding the fonts on the i3bar, try to add FontAwesome to your bar config like this:
#start of bar section
bar {
font pango: Noto Sans Regular, FontAwesome 10
position top
tray_padding 0
status_command i3blocks -c ~/.config/i3/i3blocks.conf
After that, reload your i3 config with Ctrl + Shift + C (or your own keybinding if you’ve changed the defaults).
$ fc-list | grep "Sauce" returned nothing, so I installed ttf-sourcecodepro-nerd. I went to preferences, but “SauceCodePro” is not listed. There’s “SourceCodeVF”, which I don’t remember being there, but the icon issue persists so that may be unrelated. Changing the bar section as you indicated fixed the icons on my bar, but the power menu is still broken. I tried changing the i3 font defined at the top of the i3 config to the same font, but no dice.
The font setting at the top of the i3 config is for window decorations and has nothing to do with the issue.
That’s impossible.
If you’ve installed the ttf-sourcecodepro-nerd package and updated your font cache (you don’t usually have to update the font cache manually because there is a pacman hook to do this for you automatically), you should be able to see SauceCodePro listed in your xfce4-terminal preference window after you restart xfce4-terminal. I know this because I have tested it myself:
Run fc-list | grep "Sauce" again after you’ve installed ttf-sourcecodepro-nerd. If the fonts are indeed listed by fc-list, then all is good. Restart xfce4-terminal and go to the preference window. You should see a bunch of SauceCodePro entries there. If you don’t see them, then something probably went wrong with the installation. Perhaps the font cache wasn’t updated, in which case you should run:
$ fc-cache -f -v
Having said that, changing the xfce4-terminal fonts to SauceCodePro will only allow the correct icons to be displayed inside your terminal—e.g. when you open the powermenu script in the terminal using nano or vim. When you actually launch the powermenu, it is rofi that is responsible for rendering the fonts. Therefore, you probably need to change your rofi settings to include SauceCodePro as well.
Just went back to the terminal preferences, and SauceCodePro is now listed. Which is odd, as I did Win+Shift+C, Win+Shift+R, and a reboot before checking last time. Maybe it just didn’t refresh the cache, as you mentioned. With it now selected, icons in the terminal are working just fine. Editing the rofi powermenu config to the FontAwesome version also fixed my powermenu!
