Use emoji inside terminal
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?
Solution 1:
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?
Solution 2:
Our wait is finally over guys! This is default terminal in
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
playing with https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-emojify
You may have to
sudo apt install fonts-emojione
Solution 3:
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).
Solution 4:
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.