AwesomeWM install lacking font? (Rofi super menu)

[ThinkOlivia]

So I just installed Manjaro Awesome Edition after not falling in love with i3wm, but it looks like the Rofi config lacks required fonts. I've attached a screenshot as I am not very familiar with WM's but I'm taking this time to educate myself as much as I can.

[bill_t]

Welcome to the Manjaro community!

I had the impression that this issue was addressed a while back - it had to do with the Pango library not supporting bitmap fonts anymore.

To solve your issue, see this very enlightening post:

Manjaro awesome super-key menu having weird characters

It's a font issue with rofi. You will need to change your rofi configuration: https://archived.forum.manjaro.org/t/rofi-is-gibberish/102424 Edit: @frankk could you update that file: https://gitlab.manjaro.org/profiles-and-settings/desktop-settings/tree/master/community/awesome/skel/.config/rofi in the awesome edition /etc/skel to that one of @Chrysostomus : https://gitlab.manjaro.org/profiles-and-settings/desktop-settings/blob/master/community/bspwm/skel/.config/rofi/config.rasi? Maybe this c…

[frankk]

@bill_t

I had the impression that this issue was addressed a while back - it had to do with the Pango library not supporting bitmap fonts anymore.

That's correct, but the ISO hasn't been updated yet. It should be fixed in the next ISO.

[ThinkOlivia]

Thank you, that was a quick and easy fix!