pango, file-icons fonts not working

[mikaelivarsson]

Not sure if this is the correct way to do this since I try to comment/ask about a fork but I can't find the button to raise an issue there..
@CastixGitHub in your fork you mention it should be possible to use more icons because of the pango integration.
I am able to show the emacs icon using the test:
echo -e '<span font_desc="file-icons">\ue926</span>' | pango-view --markup /dev/stdin
but it won't work for me in the i3bar if I use the example json.

anything that needs to be added to some config for i3 for this to work?

[CastixGitHub]

mh, nope, here's my bottom bar

bar {
    status_command py3status --config ~/.config/i3status-bottom.conf -b
    position bottom
    mode hide
    font pango:FontAwesome 18
}

by default at the top of your file you will have

# Font for window titles. Will also be used by the bar unless a different font
# is used in the bar {} block below.
font pango:monospace 8

how did you install my fork? I mean, I didn't update installation instructions, so if you installed it with pip, you won't get pango support, clone it and place in your config something like

exec_always --no-startup-id exec /home/castix/.config/i3/i3-workspace-names-daemon/i3_workspace_names_daemon.py --log-path /tmp/i3-workspaces-names-daemon.log

also, the latest branch I used is named pytest
also, pango support was added by @bastidest :)

[mikaelivarsson]

Got it, thanks a lot.
I was stupid enough to think that the pango support was included in the original fork and just further documented in yours..

off topic: anywhere you reside in irc or similar if I have further questions?

[CastixGitHub]

Just allowed anyone to open issues in my fork, anyway, hopefully PR #32 will be merged soon
can this be closed? :)