Gnome-Characters app

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“Characters app … makes it easier to find and use special characters, including emojis”

Problem is: not all “emojis” are displayed at Antergos gnome instal (no problems with other distros).

@4ant said in Gnome-Characters app:

emojis

Maybe someone could point out a set of fonts compatible with most emoji display…

It’s gnome, just use the default font which you are not supposed to change anyway according to the gnome developers.
J.

@Jeannie____ said in Gnome-Characters app:

It’s gnome, just use the default font which you are not supposed to change anyway according to the gnome developers.
J.

please, read above )
"(no problems with other distros)"

@4ant said in Gnome-Characters app:

please, read above )
"(no problems with other distros)"

Could you define “other distros” and provide some comparative screenshots?

Assuming that “emojis” means Emoticons category, I can’t find significant differencies between platforms. Only Fedora 26 - the main Gnome 3 supporter - has all emoticons, though misses icons in Pictures category.

A brief look at some Gnomes, currently running on this computer.

Antergos

Arch

Debian 8 Jessie. Old Gnome 3.14, doesn’t have gnome-characters app

Debian 9 Stretch

Fedora 26

Mageia 6

Tumbleweed

@4ant said in Gnome-Characters app:

“Characters app … makes it easier to find and use special characters, including emojis”
‘Characters’ is not strictly an emoji picker’. It does 'offer ‘an easy way to find and use a variety of characters’

Thank you very much for your time just. Arch, Fedora and Debian based distros may provide the same output. ‘other distros’ was maybe an incorrect generalization. Latest I used the app was Ubuntu Gnome. I-m writing from the 16-04 install media.
To find what they did, that the others didn’t 🙂🙄, I don’t mind install to HD, and do some packages search, in case you have any idea about what to look for.

@4ant Probably this is what you’re looking for - emoji in Arch and Antergos.

Antergos, Arch

sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji

@just said in Gnome-Characters app:

@4ant Probably this is what you’re looking for - emoji in Arch and Antergos.

sudo pacman -S noto-fonts-emoji

Only one more try, please just
what is your output at the end of the screen to follow…

@4ant I dislike Gnome 3 almost as much as legendary @Jeannie____ , and normally can’t use it for more than 10 minutes a day. You make me spend half an hour with it daily. It’s beyond my limits of Gnome 3 support.

I have 8 screens in Pictures category with Noto Color Emoji font in Arch and Antergos.

Antergos + Arch, 1(8)

Antergos + Arch, 2(8)

Antergos + Arch, 3(8)

Antergos + Arch, 4(8)

Antergos + Arch, 5(8)

Antergos + Arch, 6(8)

Antergos + Arch, 7(8)

Antergos + Arch, 8(8)

“I have 8 screens in Pictures category with Noto Color Emoji font in Arch and Antergos”

Thank you very much. Solved!!!

(sorry about asking for the pictures, I had an issue to instal “noto…”, yesterday)

@4ant said in Gnome-Characters app:

(sorry about asking for the pictures,…

Pictures aren’t a problem. The real problem is Gnome 3.

Just kidding. I’m playing with it and various display managers (plus Wayland on proprietary Nvidia) now, getting curious results. But it’s a scandalous off-topic, so let’s stop here.

ahahha (off-topic) …great one Just
again, thanks for your help!