Inspired by this comment, this is a sway config file for adding icons in title bars using Font Awesome and Nerd Fonts Symbols.

Normally, this is very tedidous to do; so to not waste time on a grand scale with everyone manually trying to specifiy an icon for each app, I decided to make this repo as a shortcut for people who are interested.

Usage

1. Install Font Awesome.

Arch-based:

sudo pacman -S ttf-font-awesome

Debian-based:

sudo apt install fonts-font-awesome

Every other distro: https://fontawesome.com/download

2. Install Nerd Fonts Symbols.

Arch-based:

sudo pacman -S ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols

Every other distro: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases

3. Clone the repo to ~/.config/sway/

cd ~/.config/sway/
git clone https://github.com/iguanajuice/sway-font-awesome

4. Add lines...

# Enable title bar icons
exec cd ~/.config/sway/sway-font-awesome && git reset --hard && git pull
include sway-font-awesome/icons-wl
include sway-font-awesome/icons-x11 # exclude if sway is compiled without xwayland

...to ~/.config/sway/config

5. Enable pango in sway's config:

font pango:YourChoiceOfFont [font_size]

Opening issues

If there are any apps that I haven't added an icon for yet; please open an issue with the app_id or class of the application that's missing an icon.

You can find the app_id/class by launching the app and running swaymsg -t get_tree in a terminal.

Opening PRs

Please follow these rules:

• Be sure to update icons by relogging in before opening any issues.
• Everything should be sorted alphabetically.
• app_id and class entries should stay seperated.
• Icon should be from Font Awesome primarily. Use Nerd Fonts Symbols if FA has nothing better.
• Icon should be wrapped in <span size='100%' font-weight='normal'> and </span> tags.
• There must be a space between </span> and %title.
• Due to a bug in god knows where, the first <span> tag must be preceded by a soft-hyphen. You can type this special character by pressing Ctrl+Shift+u, typing "ad", then pressing enter.
• If an icon is rendered too small, increase size to 110%, 120%, 133%, or 150%. Icon size should be consistent to one another.
• If an icon is placed too high, use rise='-1pt' to lower it.