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How to fix huge sized utf-8 emoji icons in Awesome WM?


I want to set the utf-8 "icons" as the taglist headers, but this "icon" turns out to be huge (upper left). I tried changing theme font and font size, but it did not bring any result. Current font: "Ubuntu 10".

Huge utf8 symbol size

Tell me please, what should I try next?


Solution

  • I vaguely remember hearing about this problem before on the #awesome IRC channel. The reason there was that the person had configured FontConfig not to scale fixed size fonts. I do not remember the details, but the first Google result lead me to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration#Disable_scaling_of_bitmap_fonts.