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BWStevens
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 Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2018 3:29 pm Post subject: Font Awesome and fontconfig |
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Hi community,
I'm running Bspwm with polybar and I have been trying for the last couple of days to get workspace icons in the bar.
I've installed font awesome and everything is set correctly but I cannot get them to all show up.
I've checked fc-list and they are definitely installed but when I type fc-match awesome I get a strange result
fc-match awesome LiberationSans-Regular.ttf: "Liberation Sans" "Regular"
It seems like freetype is thinking font awesome is Liberation Sans
Do I need to use eselect fontconfig to set something. I've looked in the list but I cant see anything about font awesome.
Thankyou for your time and patience
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Brett Stevens |
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josephg
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:46 am Post subject: |
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Interesting! I get
| Code: | $ fc-match awesome
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" |
I have had many issues with the newer fontawesome-5.x packages. Downgraded back to fontawesome-4.7.0. Try that version?
I am thinking of moving away from fontawesome, but for lack of alternatives. I use i3wm.
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v_andal
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 7:00 am Post subject: |
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I'd say such things are quite normal for fontconfig. It is designed to find matching font, not the one the user wants 
In this case one should try
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fc-match 'Font Awesome 5 Free'
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Looks like this is the name that the font is using now (obtained from fc-list output). |
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josephg
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | $ fc-match 'Font Awesome 5 Free'
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" |
| Code: | $ fc-list | grep -i awesome
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/FontAwesome.otf: FontAwesome:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf: FontAwesome:style=Regular |
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The Main Man
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| Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe you should try Nerd fonts, it includes Font Awesome as well as many other icons.
I use that one for polybar and urxvt, never had any problems.
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts |
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v_andal
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:53 am Post subject: |
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And this is what I get:
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9:21 % fc-list | grep -i awesom
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fa-regular-400.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Free:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fa-brands-400.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Brands:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/Font Awesome 5 Free-Solid-900.otf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Solid:style=Solid
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/fa-solid-900.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Free:style=Solid
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/Font Awesome 5 Brands-Regular-400.otf: Font Awesome 5 Brands,Font Awesome 5 Brands Regular:style=Regular
/usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/Font Awesome 5 Free-Regular-400.otf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Regular:style=Regular
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I have version 5.1.0. So, if your fc-list reports that awesome font has name 'FontAwesome' then you should use that name
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fc-match FontAwesome
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josephg
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| Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:45 am Post subject: |
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since then i've found that just the fontname itself is sufficient.
| Code: | $ fc-match fontawesome
FontAwesome.otf: "FontAwesome" "Regular" |
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