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Emoji support for bookmarks bar on Chrome in Linux

How can I get support for proper rendering of emojis in Chrome bookmarks bar? I'm using Ubuntu Linux or more specifically Xubuntu. This is how it looks today: I want them to be displayed as country ...
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Display emoji in tty or fbterm?

I am working with an old Raspberry Pi that only has text mode. Distro is Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian 11. By default the emoji characters only print as white diamond shapes in tty; in fbterm they ...
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Pressing emoji shortcut prints out letter "e"

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 with emoji shortcut set up in ibus. Pressing the shortcut prints out a letter e with underscore. I've been trying to change the shortcut to another combination but it still ...
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Is there a way to remove specific emoji from being rendered in any application while using Cinnamon desktop?

I am slightly annoyed with some emojis. So I was wondering, how could I remove/prevent some emojis from being rendered at all? Replacing them with some other emoji like cute cat face could work too. ...
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How can I add a custom emoji to the already existing emojis (ore replace one)

Hello I'm starting to play with the linux console apearance and I would like to customize the @ emoji, I know I can do it in many ways, I used sudo nano ~/.zshrc and modified a few lines so i can ...
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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 ...
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How can I have colored emoji in URxvt?

Let me first clarify that xfce4-terminal does show colored emojis on the very same system for which I ask the question. URxvt, on the other hand, doesn't show them. Based on archlinux wiki, Emojis ...
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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: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE ...
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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 ...
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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 "...
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How to let KDE on Debian show emojis?

I am using KDE on Debian (both stable/Bullseye and testing/Bookworm). Emojis are not displayed in the terminal, not in window titles and not in system notifications. One way to reproduce the problem ...
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GUI Emoji Selector for Debian 11

On Debian 11, which package can I install that will provide a GUI for Emoji selection? I'm looking for a package that: Has minimal dependencies Works across multiple desktop environments / window ...
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Some Emojis not appearing on browser and some applications in Endeavour OS

I just shifted to arch from ubuntu budgie. and I am getting some issues loading/displaying emojis on some websites and applications. I have provided some screenshots of the issue. The Os I am using is ...
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Emoji picker on Fedora 35

Is there an emoji picker available on Fedora 35? I can't seem to find a way to do it.
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How do I make an emoji macro keyboard for linux?

I want to make a macro keyboard that types emoji for my Raspberry Pi 4 with a quite old spare keyboard. I got this idea from Tom Scott (British youtuber) and he made it in windows. Although I could ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Black, flat, modern emojis - Debian

I have been trying to find a package that provides me with flat, black emojis to use in my node.js application. I have tried ttf-ancient-fonts but the emojis don't look flat or modern Is there a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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How to apply JoyPixels to Firefox browser?

How can I apply JoyPixels to Firefox browser? As you can see some emojis in Firefox are black and white, while others are colored. The link is this.
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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 ...
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How to easy setup reliable font with modern symbols and emoji support on void-linux?

I was a Ubuntu Desktop user from long years. I changed for void-linux because the Unity desktop env does not fit well with i3 and I want a more personalized desktop settings. The setup works well, ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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 ...
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