Plugged-In icon shows up as a question mark

Bug Report

Description

Affected module: battery Version used: AUR 1.10.4-2

When laptop is plugged in, instead of displaying the plugged-in icon, a question mark icon is displayed. This is rather strange, since the issue clearly isn’t an invalid character. The question mark is the question mark icon provided by Font Awesome. All the other icons are rendering perfectly fine, just to be clear.

How to reproduce

1. Install bumblebee-status from the AUR
2. Install powerline-fonts and awesome-terminal-fonts
3. Run bumblebee-status in i3 bar configuration like so

bar {
    font pango:Inconsolata, FontAwesome, PowerlineSymbols 11
    position top
    tray_output none
    status_command bumblebee-status\
        -m battery datetime nic pasink pasource\
        -p datetime.format="%a. %b %d %H:%M" nic.exclude="lo,wlan0"\
        -t gruvbox-powerline
}

[rosalogia]

1. You’re right that the issue here is that the battery charging status is unknown (cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT*/status outputs Unknown) so good call! No idea how to fix that but obviously it’s not always an issue, and furthermore it’s not really within the scope of this project

2. battery-upower DOES work! Interesting, thank you for the solution!

[rosalogia]

That makes a lot of sense! I’m away from my computer right now but I’ll be sure to get back to you after testing it out tomorrow. Thank you!