Using 'Material Design Icons' or other higher-order fonts in conky

ngoonee · 2016-03-28 10:23:58

I'm looking to use icons as in https://materialdesignicons.com/ in my conky setup.

I'm already able to use 'normal' icons using ${font} and UTF-8 escaping of hex code points in bash to generate the characters, but can't seem to do that for the f11b (example) range of characters which are used by Material Design Icons.

Is there any way to do that? Pizzadude-bullets is quite limited.

Docbroke · 2016-03-28 10:55:26

these are icons not fonts, you can use them with image command of conky like,

${image ~/path/to/icon.png -p 58,427}

where 58, 427 specify location of icon on screen (x, y)

However this location will remain fixed, to specified x, y: so it is little difficult to manage as compared to fonts.

ngoonee · 2016-03-28 17:46:11

Docbroke wrote:

these are icons not fonts, you can use them with image command of conky like,
${image ~/path/to/icon.png -p 58,427}
where 58, 427 specify location of icon on screen (x, y)
However this location will remain fixed, to specified x, y: so it is little difficult to manage as compared to fonts.

No, they're actually available as a font. As are most collections of icons nowadays, mostly to support web development.

Check out https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-material-icons/ for the ttf.

This applies to other similar icon-font collections. Most of them use the 'private' addresses in UTF-8 which most fonts leave empty. Not sure how to use those in conky.

Docbroke · 2016-03-29 02:59:33

Yes, got it. That one is good healthy collection of icons. Confirmed not working with conky, though.
As a side note, I am almost sure that you are aware of fontawesome, which is another healthy collection and works with conky.

ngoonee · 2016-03-30 00:07:44

Docbroke wrote:

Yes, got it. That one is good healthy collection of icons. Confirmed not working with conky, though.
As a side note, I am almost sure that you are aware of fontawesome, which is another healthy collection and works with conky.

Yes I am, but ttf-material-icons as so much more! For example font-awesome doesn't have a music note (only two quavers), there's only ONE book icon, etc. etc.

I wonder why its not working. I'm not a font guru, but I was under the impression as long as it could be properly mapped it could be displayed.

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#1 2016-03-28 10:23:58

Using 'Material Design Icons' or other higher-order fonts in conky

#2 2016-03-28 10:55:26

Re: Using 'Material Design Icons' or other higher-order fonts in conky

#3 2016-03-28 17:46:11

Re: Using 'Material Design Icons' or other higher-order fonts in conky

#4 2016-03-29 02:59:33

Re: Using 'Material Design Icons' or other higher-order fonts in conky

#5 2016-03-30 00:07:44

Re: Using 'Material Design Icons' or other higher-order fonts in conky

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