Hopefully I can get some direction here.

I’'m running EndeavourOS, which is an arch based distro for any not familiar with it.

Been using Joplin for a while, and Recently started adding Icons to my Notebook Titles like so:

the icons I’m talking about

This works fine, but only with the Flatpack version of the App.

Please bear with me at this point. With the Appimage version, and the version(s) in the AUR, these Icons seem to not work for me. They show up as blank, sort of like the old Broke-image placeholders in a browser. I have no clue why.

proper theme but no icons in Appimage version

This didn’t bother me much, simple solution, just keep using the flatpack. But just recently the flatpack version updated and broke my theme.

With the theme set to Dracula, the menu bar and some other elements are white and look fairly out of place:

Icons, but Broken Theme in Flatpak version

So now, if possible, I’d like to either: a) fix the theme on the flatpack version b) get the icons to show up properly on any of the other versions.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

  • laurentMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Are those icons emojis or image files? (both are supported) If they are emoji it means FlatPack or your operating system is missing a font that would include these emojis. We are not picking a particular font, just default, and that works in other operating systems.

    For the white menus there’s not much to do either as this is handled by the system. If you chose a dark theme at the system level it should show this in dark.

    • gibsonEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Just want to report that I also get this issue via the official appimage on Fedora 37.

      Joplin 2.11.11 (prod, linux)

      Client ID: [redacted] Sync Version: 3 Profile Version: 43 Keychain Supported: No

      Revision: 6886f6f

      Kanban: 1.0.7

    • Lancaban@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Firstly, thank you for taking the time to help me, I really appreciate it.

      Ok So some good news, I have the title bar working/looking properly again. I was a bit confused because my system is set to a dark theme ,and Joplin had the “dracula” theme applied. Have not changed either in almost a year, but with last month’s flatpak update, the menu went from being my system theme to the white you saw in the previous pictures. As of now it has gone, perhaps an update to KDE frameworks or some other underlying component fixed it. Not sure.

      So simple solution, I can keep using flatpack.

      However, I am curious as to how I “could” fix the font display on the non flatpak versions?

      I have included a couple more reference pictures here

      My system font is set to Noto Sans. I have quite a few fonts installed, including several Nerd Fonts, and don’t have any problems displaying Emoji in any other apps than Joplin (the non flatpak versions at least)

      The appearance dialogue as you can see has no font family specified, but I was under the impression that was just for the Editor, not the menus.

      Is Noto Sans as my system default font, the problem? If so, any suggestion for a good replacement?

      • laurentMEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately I don’t know much about Linux desktop in general, so I wouldn’t know what to advise in terms of fonts, but hopefully someone else can chip in. You might want to ask in Linux-specific forums since it’s probably not specific to Joplin

        • Lancaban@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It does seem specific to Joplin though, as I’m fully capable of displaying emoticons/emoji/etc in any other program.

          Tried asking over on the reddit Joplin forum, and had no response, info said it had moved here, but I’m only seeing like 20 some subscribers.

          I appreciate the help you’ve given so far, but from everything I know about Linux, I’ve been using it for ht better part of a decade, though I’m not an expert, this does seem to be Joplin specific, and I’m not sure where else to find help :(

            • Lancaban@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Thank you! I had not tried that, thanks for pointing me to it.

              Top toolbar looks fine now, still now Joy on the icons in non-flatpak versions (any of them)

              I even switched my system font to a nerd-font patched one, so guaranteed it has all the emoji/icon/bits you could ever want, but still they won’t show up :(

              It’s a silly little nitpicky thing, because it doesn’t affect the functioning of the program at all, it just sort of bugs me that I can’t figure it out.