On donderdag 29 februari 2024 16:19:57 (+01:00), Celejar wrote:
> Hi, > > About two years ago [0], I installed the package > "fonts-noto-color-emoji" on my Sid (Xfce4) system, and from then until > several weeks ago, emojis have been displayed throughout the system in > glorious color. Recently (several weeks ago?), however, a number of > applications have started displaying emojis in (unattractive) > monochrome. The applications that I have seen doing this have all been > GTK based (Sylpheed, Geany, Gedit); Firefox and Chromium seem to be > correctly using color. > > Can anyone help me figure out what changed and how to diagnose and fix > the problem? I have spent a while searching the web, and I can't find a > simple and straightforward way to deal with this. Font configuration on > Linux seems to be an extraordinarily complicated and poorly documented > mess. > > [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/11/msg00619.html > I had the same problem. This is a known bug in fontconfig: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1064267#10
