May's Blog

If you have missing emojis in XFCE as i had terminal following informations are for you. I found this on manjaro related forum but it worked for me in my Endeavour OS as well.

Firstly install noto-fonts-emoji

1sudo pacman -Syu
2sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji

And edit or create /etc/fonts/local.conf to tell the terminal to use installed fonts. Add following content:

 1<?xml version="1.0"?>
 2<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
 3<fontconfig>
 4
 5 <alias>
 6   <family>sans-serif</family>
 7   <prefer>
 8     <family>Noto Sans</family>
 9     <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
10     <family>Noto Emoji</family>
11     <family>DejaVu Sans</family>
12   </prefer> 
13 </alias>
14
15 <alias>
16   <family>serif</family>
17   <prefer>
18     <family>Noto Serif</family>
19     <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
20     <family>Noto Emoji</family>
21     <family>DejaVu Serif</family>
22   </prefer>
23 </alias>
24
25 <alias>
26  <family>monospace</family>
27  <prefer>
28    <family>Noto Mono</family>
29    <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
30    <family>Noto Emoji</family>
31   </prefer>
32 </alias>
33
34</fontconfig>

This worked for me in my terminal with Jetbrains Mono font. Or you can use any Sans Serif font.

This is my 100DaysToOffload 2/100 post.

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