Do you know how to use Emoji emoticons on Linux?

Emoji has become one of the popular methods to express emotions and add a bit of "spice" to conversations in today's Internet technology era. Many users desire to use emoticons regardless of operating system because they are used to using them on mobile devices and social networks. If you use macOS or Windows 10, it is quite simple but for Linux, you have to install the command because not all Linux distros have default emoji characters. Let's see some ways to import emoji from Linux!

Install Emoji font

Symbola font can display a large number of emoticons as monochrome symbols. You can install this font if it is not included by default in your distribution.

Packages like ttf-ancient-fonts on Ubuntu-based distributions and gdouros-symbola-fonts on Fedora-based distributions can easily install Symbola fonts on your Linux desktop.

Run the following commands to install ttf-ancient-fonts on Ubuntu 16.04 and other Ubuntu distributions:

sudo apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts

To display emoji colors in Linux, you need to install an emoji font set. One of the options worth trying is EmojiOne Color Font, which uses glyphs from the EmojiOne suite for free.

At this point, it will display colored emoji in Firefox, Thunderbird and other Gecko-based programs. Other applications will revert to black-and-white glyphs, but in general, they will be much better than Symbola font icons.

Here's how to install it in Ubuntu and Ubuntu distributions:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa: eosrei / fonts
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fonts-emojione-svginot

If you like to design Twitter emoticons, install Twitter Color Emoji Font:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa: eosrei / fonts
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fonts-twemoji-svginot

Enter Emoji with EmojiOne Picker

The best way to enter emoji mostly depends on your desktop environment. The best solution is to use EmojiOne Picker applet for Ubuntu.

This program will add an emoji applet to the taskbar or desktop control panel so you can easily search, copy and paste emoji.

Although designed specifically for Ubuntu and Unity desktops, this emoji also works on other distributions and some DEs like GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE, XFCE, Pantheon and Cinnamon.

You can see the installation instructions for distributions on the Github page.

Once installed, run the program from the application launcher on your computer. The picker applet will be added to your system tray.

Do you know how to use Emoji emoticons on Linux? Picture 1

To use the picker, you just need to select the emoticon from the drop-down menu to copy it to the clipboard and paste it into the place you want.

Do you know how to use Emoji emoticons on Linux? Picture 2

These are all steps to help emoji display on Linux, hopefully this article will be helpful to you.

Linux Ubuntu

Kareem Winters

Update 26 May 2019

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