Emoji mystery
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Emojis get displayed in various places in Trisquel (11 and 12) with MATE, but are invisible in some of these places in Trisquel Mini (11 and 12). In Abrowser they are correctly displayed and can be copied and pasted, but not in email clients and text editors for instance.
All seemingly emoji related packages are installed on both systems, so either something else is missing or some step may be skipped in Mini at configuration time. All systems were installed from their respective iso image, Trisquel 11 on disks and Trisquel 12 on VMs.
It would be nice if this was in fact a feature that users can choose to switch on/off.
As I won myself some idle time, I tried to investigate further and noticed that the content of /etc/fonts/conf.d is slightly different, so I copied '91-ubuntu-mate-emoji.conf' over to Mini and ran fc-cache -f -v there, but it did not help reveal the hidden emoji.
The ttf file list in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/noto is the same in both systems, and includes 'NotoColorEmoji.ttf'. I tried to reinstall the fonts-noto-color-emoji package on Mini but that made no noticeable difference either.
I am quite fine without emoji, in fact I did not notice the difference for a while, but I would like to understand what made them appear in MATE and not in Mini/LXDE, so that random situation can be made into a deliberate choice.
Hello!,
Try to reproduce on Debian with Mate and LXDE, that is always a nice way to find out if we might be missing some configuration, package / package update, or even if we broke something while "cooking".
That would be my suggestion.
Regards.
Thanks for the suggestion.
It appears that emoji are displayed in all expected places on Debian 13 LXDE.
So the plot thickens, but we have a clue.
Well it looks like there is some unsettling amount of instability here (reporting from a dire dive into D13 LXDE on a VM), but we have found out that iBus has some options for emoji, and that right-clicking on the iBus tray icon triggers the iBus contextual menu (as expected) which has an "emoji chooser" entry.
I have not been able to reproduce this on Mini 11/12, where the emoji table triggered through iBus is mostly empty. So I guess iBus depends on the same magic as the other apps to get that emoji table populated. On MATE a complete colorful emoji table can be called from within Pluma or through iBus.
BREAKTHROUGH: some of the rare monochrome emoji currently showing in the iBus table on Mini 11/12 are in fact usable. For now, the main lead is that this is a move of nature to support minimalism, so you can express the most important things in life - sadness ☹ and happiness ☺, love ♥, death ✝, dharma ☸ and clover ♣ - without bloating the screen with silly miniature color pictures of undecipherable meaning.