I have followed this question: 18.04: color emoji not showing up at all in Chrome, only partially in Firefox, installed fonts-noto-color-emoji manually, but color emojis are still not showing up in Chrome or VS Code. Color emojis work in Mousepad, XFCE's terminal emulator.
I'm on the latest Xubuntu (XFCE) 18.04.1, fresh install.
The output of sudo apt rdepends fonts-noto-color-emoji
is like this:
fonts-noto-color-emoji
Reverse Depends:
Recommends: ubuntu-desktop
Recommends: lubuntu-gtk-desktop
Recommends: lubuntu-desktop
Recommends: ubuntustudio-desktop
Recommends: ubuntu-mate-desktop
Recommends: ubuntu-mate-core
Recommends: ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Recommends: lubuntu-gtk-desktop
Recommends: lubuntu-desktop
Recommends: gnome
Recommends: gajim
Recommends: dino-im
|Recommends: corebird
How can I get color emojis working in Chrome/Chromium?
Edit: Apparently, the emoji is loaded only if the web page asks for "Noto Color Emoji" font explicitly, like on this page. Where I want it to work however is in for example where the noto font is not explicitly asked, and also dev tools, console, omni bar.
Best Answer
I was going to comment buuuut I don't have enough reputation ? (hey look, here's an emoji to check if it is working or not!)
This solution worked for me "partially", it did fix the emojis in Discord and in the Terminal, but in Firefox it was still a mix of "some of them works, some of them doesn't", I also found this but that didn't fix the issue in Firefox... ?
So here's what I did to fix:
fonts-noto-color-emoji
(sudo apt-get install fonts-noto-color-emoji
)That's it, if you REALLY need emojis working on Firefox (emojis are wonky in Ubuntu too, you ain't losing anything by using Xubuntu), you can do this
Go to
~/.config/fontconfig/conf.d/99-emoji.conf
(you will probably need to create the folders!) and add this:fc-cache -fv
Now restart the apps and... that's it! Emojis will work in Chrome and Firefox! Have fun! ?
(If Firefox emojis are still borked, you can try changing the default Firefox font to
Noto Color Emoji
)Keep in mind: Numbers in Firefox will have serifs
Keep in mind²: Apps installed via the Ubuntu store (or snap) won't have emojis working! I'm not sure why this happens... if someone knows how to fix this, let me know!
Firefox @ getemoji.com: ff in getemoji
Chromium @ getemoji.com: chromium in getemoji
Firefox @ Google Search: ff in google search
Discord Canary (Electron): discord canary with emojis
Terminal (Xfce): emojis in xfce terminal
???