Polybar menu and power options - unicode symbols missing

[tmo793]

Fresh install following the youtube video instructions, on bare metal laptop (3rd Gen i5-3317U). Seems to be going great by default, I didn't notice any errors running the root and user scripts. I'm new to sddm & bspwm so I'm a bit lost, but really love it so far.

My issue: The "magnifying glass" symbol on the polybar top-left menu is showing as a square box with hex values in it - i.e. missing unicode in font. Just comparing visually between Chris' menu and mine, they appear to be the same font used. The only fonts I saw installing were the MS-TTF fonts, and they all seemed to install correctly. I'm not sure what exactly is wrong/missing.

Same issue when I click the power icon (top-right) - all 5 symbols are missing hex boxes.

Reboot doesn't fix it.

PS - this feels more like a noob-in-distress problem than a real "issue" - is there a better place for me to ask questions like this?

EDIT: Corrected my misunderstanding of bspwm vs polybar

[tmo793]

This is a repeat of #14, but #14 is marked as resolved - should it be marked resolved, if the issue still exists? Can the suggest fix be rolled into this project?
I'm happy to follow the instructions in #14 to fix the issue at my end, but it's strange only a small number of people are being affected.

[aphive]

To add to this, even when the icons are working, in .config/rofi/powermenu/powermenu.sh there is this entry

# Confirmation
confirm_exit() {
	rofi -dmenu\
		-i\
		-no-fixed-num-lines\
		-p "Are You Sure? : "\
		-theme $dir/confirm.rasi
}

# Message
msg() {
	rofi -theme "$dir/message.rasi" -e "Available Options  -  yes / y / no / n"
}

which causes using power options to fail as there is no message.rasi file in the dir.

In issue 14 it does give a solution but this should be fixed in the code and not something the end user needs to troubleshoot if it's a known issue.

#14 (comment)

[aphive]

Here is how I fixed mine... It's just the first few lines that need tweaking.

dir="$HOME/.config/rofi/"

theme="$dir/powermenu/drop_square"
confirm="$dir/applets/styles/confirm.rasi"
rofi_command="rofi -theme $dir/$theme"

# Options
shutdown=""
reboot=""
lock=""
suspend=""
logout=""

# Confirmation
confirm_exit() {
	rofi -dmenu\
		-i\
		-no-fixed-num-lines\
		-p "Are You Sure? : "\
		-theme $confirm
}

# Message
msg() {
	rofi -theme "$confirm" -e "Available Options  -  yes / y / no / n"
}

[aphive]

Question @ChrisTitusTech what is the packages.txt for? Are those packages that should be installed on the system after? Is there a way to ensure this all gets install if they should?

[Tchutcha87]

I'm having trouble to see what's inside the " " () For me, it appears like a hollow box with a few numbers inside. I'm using firefox to see this webpage, on my script I also can't see what's happening inside the " " so my polybar doesn't show a lot of symbols... Is there a way to fix this?

[aphive]

@Tchutcha87, that is because of the fonts you use, those are "special" characters. The original repo is here with examples of what hey look like in the GUI: https://github.com/adi1090x/rofi

Basically this is how it plays out:

shutdown="" = 
reboot="" = 
lock="" = 
suspend="" = 
logout="" = 

[trekie86]

I was able to get the icons loading by going to https://github.com/adi1090x/rofi and running their setup script. Then I went to ~/.config and moved rofi to rofi.back and then rofi.old to rofi and reloaded the window manager. After that, it looks like things load accordingly.

[nikosszzz]

Also experiencing this issue.