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Fix: Add symbol font to show default waybar icons in Niri - #4876

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PR Description:

The Niri profile installs waybar with an included default config, but the default waybar config uses private-use glyphs that don't get installed on that archinstall profile, so it renders tofu boxes on the bar.

This is confusing if one picks the "Niri" profile without knowing what waybar is or what's supposed to be displayed on the bar (which is what happened to me).

The wiki for waybar recommends installing otf-font-awesome, but that doesn't actually cover all of the glyphs used in the default waybar config. But ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols covers everything and is around 2.5 mb installed versus around 700kb for otf-font-awesome. The arch wiki recommends it as a symbol only font.

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There's a good chance this issue applies to the sway profile too but I haven't personally tested it, so I didn't touch it.

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Used to setup and run fresh VMs through the install script.

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sean-a-m requested a review from Torxed as a code owner November 13, 2026 21:01

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