Use emoji inside terminal

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OS X has emoji support inside terminal, and I'm a little jelly.

Emoji One Color SVGinOT Font brings emoji support to Ubuntu, but at the moment the terminal will only render monochrome emojis.

Is there a way to get these color beauties in gnome terminal?

No, the terminal emulation widget VTE behind gnome-terminal (and many other emulators) does not support this. — egmont, Jun 04 '16 at 17:08

score 39 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '16 at 06:59

I'm the creator of that font.

Sorry, there is not way to see SVGinOT (SVG-in-OpenType) color fonts in anything other than Gecko-based applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird right now. I made these fonts to solve the "chicken or the egg" problem: there were no color fonts and so no reason to support them. Now there are color fonts... Next steps: Probably a feature request on Launchpad?

score 37 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 08 '22 at 07:31

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Our wait is finally over guys!
Emojis are supported by default inside terminal, from Ubuntu 18 on.

Check your version with:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic

Not strictly related, but here is a screenshot of how it plays with https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-emojify, npm package that uses emojis for automation messages:

(You may have to sudo apt install fonts-emojione)

edited Oct 08 '22 at 07:31

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answered Mar 21 '18 at 07:47

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This is a scattershot and unclear answer. – Lexible Mar 07 '21 at 23:46
How version number (which introduces feature OP is asking) can be unclear? @Lexible – suside Mar 08 '21 at 13:35
When one has to read it 2-3 times to understand what the answer means & suggests, that's unclear. Too much unnecessary overhead info & code. I've suggested some edits to make it clearer. – Kamafeather Oct 07 '22 at 12:02

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered May 12 '19 at 21:55

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In GNOME Terminal (it also works in any other application), use the following keyboard shortcut:

Hit Control-Shift-E, then press Space.
You should see the Emoji Choice popup where you can select your unicode character.

Tested on Ubuntu Cosmic (18.10).

answered May 12 '19 at 21:55

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I came here looking for a different thing, but I just discovered this and it's awesome, thanks! – Yajo Apr 24 '20 at 08:11
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Nope. This does not work as you describe in Ubuntu 20.04. – Lexible Mar 07 '21 at 23:46
Nor in 22.10. Apparently it stopped working at some point. :( – Adam Dingle Feb 12 '23 at 17:00

wyqydsyq · Answer 4 · 2018-02-23T01:27:19.223

Color Emojis are not currently supported. Apparently there is a patched WIP version of libcairo that allows rendering colored emojis but it isn't stable yet.

https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-emoji/issues/36#issuecomment-168209204

Support for this will likely come down to something that needs to be implemented on a per-app or per-UI-lib (GTK, Qt etc) basis so it may take a while for some apps to support it even once the underlying OS libraries do.

UPDATE: The libcairo patch has made it's way into mainstream repositories for most distros, they should now work natively by default if you have an up-to-date install, but you may need to modify your fontconfig to actually use them.

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 18 '19 at 09:07

In your bashrc script...

vim ~/.bashrc

You can define an array of emoticons

EMOJIS=(                            )

then if you have too much time on your hands, write a function which returns a random moj.

RANDOM_EMOJI() {
  SELECTED_EMOJI=${EMOJIS[$RANDOM % ${#EMOJIS[@]}]};
  echo $SELECTED_EMOJI;
}
EMJ() {
  emj
}

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