Questions tagged [emoji]
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gitk crashes when viewing commit containing emoji: X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
I'm able to open gitk but it crashes as soon as I open a commit whom changes contains an emoji (not the commit message).
Error
❯ gitk --all
X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
Major opcode…
Édouard Lopez
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What happened to the emoji picker from Linux Mint 19?
In Linux Mint 19 x64 MATE, I noticed one day that Ctrl+Shift+E brought up some built-in/default emoji picker. I started using it after that, because of its instantaneous startup time.
After a fresh install of Linux Mint 19.3 x64 MATE, this shortcut…
Kev
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Use a specific font for emojis
i’d like to use the pretty Segoe UI Symbol emoji.
I installed the font by copying it over from my windows install, and awesomely enough, my system falls back to it for all emoji that my main font doesn’t have. But all (black and white) emoji…
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How can I properly use an American flag emoji in my bash prompt?
I want to use an American flag emoji in my bash prompt (i.e. PS1 environment variable). However, the American flag emoji causes the terminal cursor to offset an extra character to the right.
is comprised of two unicode characters, and . I believe…
Andrew Kirna
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Emoji do not show up in Chromium, render as empty boxes
When I try to view something like the Link Emoji () what I see rendered in my browser is a empty box. I see some web services are now using these glyphs.
This is what it looks like currently,
How can I fix this problem?
Evan Carroll
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How to display colored emojis in XTerm
I want to be able to display colored emojis in XTerm, for example those from Noto Color Emoji of the fonts-noto-color-emoji font package. Like this question, but specifically for XTerm.
finefoot
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Why are some emoji B&W and others too big?
I am running PureBrowser (~= Firefox ESR 52.8.0) on PureOS (~= Debian main testing) and have fonts-noto-color-emoji-0~20180424-2 installed.
When I visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Emojis I observe that:
some emoji render in color (as…
lofidevops
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fontconfig fallback font for emoji doesn't work until I blacklist all other fonts
I want to use UbuntuMono Nerd Font as my main terminal font but render emoji characters using Noto Color Emoji. I have configured LXTerminal to use font UbuntuMono Nerd Font.
I can see the primary and first fallback font files for this font with:
~…
Squiffy
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How to override terminal font-family for specific glyph?
I have set Source Code Pro as my default monospace font and Noto Color Emoji for emojis, set in fontconfig as follows:
serif
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paulodiovani
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Why do I see a black-and-white emoji in console with Noto Color Emoji font installed?
I have installed Noto Color Emoji font on my system (e.g. Arch: noto-fonts-emoji), but I still see this black-and-white version in the terminal (Konsole):
However, I expected the color one as displayed in other applications:
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Lemonbar-XFT: Emoji Font Issue
echo ☠ | lemonbar -p -b -B #000000 -f JoyPixels-15
The panel is showing the skull and not the face. From what I can tell, emojis with less than 5 digit codes are working. There must be a fix for this, right!
Salman Abedin
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Test for terminal emoji support
Based on this answer, I hoped that the following would work:
# Is emoji supported by the terminal?
function is_emoji_supported {
[ "$(echo -ne '\xE0\xA5\xA5' | wc -m)" -eq 1 ]
}
I'm guessing that this doesn't work because wc never looks at the…
Tom Hale
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Emoji Selector Empty
After deleting (by error) many packages, I came to notice that most of my emojis don't appear. In the "Emoji Selector", I have 4 emojis in the "recent" tab, but none in the "search" and the "all" ones.
I tried:
Installing noto-coloremoji-fonts,…
Miguel Fernández
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How to forbid an (emoji) font only for one software?
Context :
I'm using Luke Smith's version of st (suckless-terminal) with Monoid font for most Unicode symbols,
and I noticed it usually crash when it sees some emojis, like U1F970, st tries to load a color emoji font (currently, it's Apple Color…
ewen-goisot
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Arch Linux - Google Chrome Color Emoji
Is there a way to add color emoji to Google Chrome on Arch Linux?
Currently it looks like this
Filip Petrovic
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