Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆
Much was borrowed from gabrc52’s guide How to enable system-wide color emoji support.
Preface
Long-overdue, this guide will aid in enabling system-wide unicode emoji so they are interpreted as images, rather than unicode reserved spaces without an assignment.
Configuration
There are a couple of ways you can begin:
Using Nano
In xdg-temrinal or preferred emulator:
nano /etc/fonts/local.conf
for GVFS-enabled desktops
In Run Application or similar=
pkexec touch /etc/fonts/local.conf
gedit admin:///etc/fonts/local.conf
geditused in this example, replace with whatever your desktop’s default editor is.
Then, paste the following into the editor.
In /etc/fonts/local.conf:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Sans</family>
<family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Serif</family>
<family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Monospace</family>
<family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
Available fonts
Use any font from the table below, available from a variety of sources —
| Package | Source | Font name |
|---|---|---|
noto-fonts-emoji |
Official / Extra | Noto Color Emoji |
ttf-twemoji |
AUR | Twemoji |
otf-openmoji |
AUR | OpenMoji |
ttf-joypixels |
Official / Community | JoyPixels |
I am willing to make additions as suggested! If you know of another emoji fonts not represented here, then let us know in the comments below and I’ll append the table with it!
Corrections
Added JoyPixels as recommended by @drjackal
Resolved name and package errors in table
