Icons not recognized

[ddorstijn]

I just installed arch linux. Together with sway and waybar. I can het the configuration working and enjoying it so far. The only problem is that I cannot render any icons. Do you need to set a special font for it? Can I make it use the icon theme in some way?

While I am at it, is there also a way to look up what is possible? I can't find anything about icons in the wiki, so I was wondering if I am looking in the wrong place.

[Alexays]

You need to install otf-font-awesome to get the icons of the default configuration ;)

[4ndril]

this is happening to me and i have that package installed

[Alexays]

@4ndril Do you have any other font-awesome packages installed?

[alexei-grigoriev]

You need to install otf-font-awesome to get the icons of the default configuration ;)

could you please mention that somewhere in config comments?

[Alexays]

You need to install otf-font-awesome to get the icons of the default configuration ;)

could you please mention that somewhere in config comments?

Done in 6d5e328

[moghaazi]

I've otf-font-awesome installed and still icons are not appearing.

[DiskyToy]

I have had a similar problem just now.
I had ttf-font-awesome installed and otf-font-awesome caused some weird looking fonts (like moghaazi has in his screenshot) that i did not want to use.
To fix the missing icons (in my case arrows), i had to install ttf-jetbrains-mono and relaunch waybar.

[DavidOliver]

In NixOS Stable 23.11, adding font-awesome to fonts.packages in configuration.nix fixes missing icons for me in the default config.

[jmastr]

In NixOS Stable 23.11, adding font-awesome to fonts.packages in configuration.nix fixes missing icons for me in the default config.

Confirmed. That works beautifully.

[Deep-Six]

@DavidOliver , @jmastr This didn't work for me, installed font-awesome , font-awesome_4, font-awesome_5, and font-awesome_6 and still no luck. Do you have your style.css and config handy?

[jmastr]

@Deep-Six Honestly all I did it this:

   fonts.packages = with pkgs; [
+    font-awesome
     inter
   ];

and put the default config and style.css (in my case under /nix/store/vyavqxxm5n4jmb443195jcgajwbi0qca-waybar-0.9.24/etc/xdg/waybar/:

$ ls -l /nix/store/vyavqxxm5n4jmb443195jcgajwbi0qca-waybar-0.9.24/etc/xdg/waybar/
total 16
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 5655 Jan  1  1970 config
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4509 Jan  1  1970 style.css

into my home directory under ~/.config/waybar/.

I think the last step is not even necessary, because if there is no config in your home it will fall back to the default...

[jmastr]

@Deep-Six Of course after you switched your NixOS config via $ sudo nixos-rebuild switch you might need to manually reload your waybay config. In my case I use Sway and a simple Mod4+Shift+c works.

Hope that helps...

[Deep-Six]

Unfortunately not, I am using home.file to generate my config, so I guess my config isn't in the nix store, but I don't think that should matter. I might be stumbling against some sort of nix isolation business, but pure speculation. Annoying, I've added all the font-awesome's to my configuration.nix, iteratively, and of course rebuilt, no luck.