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[SOLVED] Not visible emoticons in Chromium browser

28 May 2023, 13:53:55

Hello community, I am using Artix Linux XFCE and in the Chromium browser, I only see emojis as squares. In Librewolf, I have no problems seeing the emoticons. Can anyone help me make the emojis visible in Chromium too❓ 🫥

Re: Not visible emoticons in Chromium browser

Reply #1 – 28 May 2023, 22:04:19

You might need to install a font package which contains emojis, they often have ttf in the package title too. You want to try and find something that does what you want but isn't too big (package MB size) otherwise it will make updates slower, some are very large. I have ttf-dejavu installed which helps, although many less common emojis (like monkey, hair flip, and nail polish) are still not shown in my Chromium installation when compared to Firefox. Adding the AUR package noto-fonts-emoji-blob fixes the situation more fully.

Re: Not visible emoticons in Chromium browser

Reply #2 – 29 May 2023, 11:23:59

Okay, I have now installed ttf-dejavu with the terminal command: " sudo pacman -S ttf-dejavu " and noto-fonts-emoji with the command: " sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji " . Until today, I didn't know how to install an AUR package with the "yay" command. So, I decided to install noto-fonts-emoji from Artix world repo. I want to thank you. I can now see the emoticons with the Chromium. 👍 Thank you very much. Currently, I would still have to go to a website where all emoticons are listed in order to copy the emoticon. Is there still a way to display and copy all emoticons in system as a emoji character map like in Microsoft Windows? 🤔

Re: Not visible emoticons in Chromium browser

Reply #3 – 29 May 2023, 13:19:03

Is the Symbols-Emoticons section in kcharselect for instance what you're looking for? AFAIK that mimics the charmap program of Windows.

Re: [SOLVED] Not visible emoticons in Chromium browser

Reply #4 – 29 May 2023, 19:14:27

emote (can be found in the AUR) works like Windows' emoji picker (Win + .)

Re: [SOLVED] Not visible emoticons in Chromium browser

Reply #5 – 30 May 2023, 09:28:11

Wonderful, kcharselect is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks to Hitman.
corysanin, I am having difficulties installing AUR packages and cannot install yay on Artix to install AUR packages.
When I install AUR packages, I prefer to use yay. The yay command is shorter and easier to understand.

Re: [SOLVED] Not visible emoticons in Chromium browser

Reply #6 – 31 May 2023, 04:16:32

I use yay as well. Maybe create a new thread to figure out your yay issue