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author | Dave Davenport <qball@blame.services> | 2022-07-16 13:13:29 +0200 |
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committer | Dave Davenport <qball@blame.services> | 2022-07-16 13:13:29 +0200 |
commit | 52f587a1918a69010e93b0a9c720728f02ed5f79 (patch) | |
tree | 45b31ed8297d06205a7b62c9cf582937451773b5 /doc/rofi.1 | |
parent | 386877dd228adb4f4cdb6cb3d8a9900439582e64 (diff) |
[IconFetcher] Add support for font rendering as icon.
Issue: #1132
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@@ -1328,6 +1328,54 @@ modes are shown, even if the rest of the input text would match results from \fB If no match, the input is handled by the first combined modes. .SH FAQ +.SS What icon formats are supported +.PP +Rofi supports 3 ways of specifying an icon: + +.RS +.IP \(bu 2 +Filename +.IP \(bu 2 +icon-name, this is looked up via the icon-theme. +.IP \(bu 2 +Markup String. It renders a string as an icon. + +.RE + +.PP +For the first two options, GdkPixbuf is used to open and render the icons. +This in general gives support for most required image formats. +For the string option it uses Pango to render the string. The string needs to +start with a \fB\fC<span\fR tag, that allows you to set color and font. + +.PP +Markup string: + +.PP +.RS + +.nf +echo -en "testing\\0icon\\x1f<span color='red'>⏻</span>" | ./rofi -dmenu + +.fi +.RE + +.PP +Getting supported icon formats: + +.PP +.RS + +.nf +G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=Helpers.IconFetcher rofi + +.fi +.RE + +.PP +This uses the debug framework and prints out a list of supported image file +extensions. + .SS The text in the window switcher is not nicely aligned. .PP Try using a mono-space font. |