On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 07:30:15AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > 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. > >
There are some terminals that support emojis internally and can display some stuff like rxvt-unicode but they use their own font and don't look really well. I'd like to have the same experience as I have in XFCE in Manjaro. -- ~ffuentes at texto-plano dot] xyz
