On 2021-06-17, Francisco Fuentes <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a little issue with my system (OpenBSD 6.9 amd64 with XFCE) and > that is that emojis aren't showing. I read fonts-conf(5) and created > with some help one for my own configuration but I haven't had luck so > far. I installed Noto Emoji font and the powerline ones from packages > but it didn't cause any effect. > > I need to be able to see emojis across the system, some people tend to > think that I wanna see them only on Firefox and they suggest stuff to do > in a specific system but I need to i.e. see color emojis in the terminal. > > What else do I need to check or is there some kind of incompatibility? > > Thanks > >
You will need a terminal that can use fallback fonts, and you'll need to configure it to use the fonts you want in the priority order you want. XTerm doesn't allow this. You can try at least rxvt-unicode, st, kitty, the various VTE-based terminals (including gnome-terminal and many others). Some are configured directly, some use fontconfig for it. I haven't tried using them for emoji but have had success with fallback for various unicode symbols and scripts that aren't supported by my usual font.
