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Shelbster

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Registered: 2017-11-16

Posts: 38

Setting system priority via font config

I'm using i3 with polybar, and I'm here trying to getting icons to work in polybar. So after spending sometime trying to figure out why my font wont use icons (Iosevka), I finally figure out that I need to use a font patched with actual icons in it, so I used Iosevka Nerd. I finally get the icons to work in polybar, but I'm still getting squares for unicode in urxvt. I know the icons exist in the font because I checked using gnome character map, but the solution actually exists within the polybar github page. The problem is that the icons exist in the private use area for unicode, and what the page says to do is to set system priority via FontConfig, but I do not understand how to actually do that. How can I achieve this?