[Solved] So strange fonts/glyphs behavior

Ice_Bear08 · 2025-03-28 22:20:38

Current behavior
I have already configured my waybar and using this config for about a week. However, today some of icons changed to other, for example instead of memory icon() in getting weird compass icon.

Possible reasons
Today i was trying to install sugar-dark sddm theme and, as far as i understand, this messed up my fonts. I think main problem is with encodings or fonts, but I`m not sure

What I've tried
1. Fully removed fonts from /usr/share/fonts and reinstalled only font-awesome and nerd-fonts
2. Changing font for waybar for css to Nerd Font Mono, Fira Code, JetBrains Mono

Expected behavior
FREAKING ARCH give me my glyphs back

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Last edited by Ice_Bear08 (2025-03-29 17:15:14)

seth · 2025-03-29 07:36:24

The glyph you posted is u+f538 which is in the private use area, ie. every font can randomly put there whatever it wants.
Checking https://www.nerdfonts.com/cheat-sheet is *used* to be a compass (actually the safari icon, nf-mdi-apple_safari) in the nerd fonts.
No idea what font you configured that might still have the safari icon there - and apparently you don't either.

Try f035b (you can use the cheat-sheet to look up glyphs in the nerd fonts)

FREAKING ARCH give me my glyphs back

Understanding how things work will work better than yelling into the internet.

Ice_Bear08 · 2025-03-29 14:22:54

Hi, thank you a lot. This fixed all my issues with icons. I supposed, that waybar use nerd font icons instead of font-awesome and those icons(memory and compass) have same names. However, I didn`t know about nerd cheat-sheet

seth · 2025-03-29 16:54:16

\o/
Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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[Solved] So strange fonts/glyphs behavior

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