ColorEmoji - bakkeby/dusk GitHub Wiki

The ColorEmoji functionality enables support for using colour emoji in the bar, sort of.

Technically all the functionality does is removing a workaround for a bug in Xft (the X Font library) which causes a BadLength error when trying to draw a colour glyph [ref] [ref] [ref].

To enable this you will need an updated Xft library that can handle glyphs with colour - otherwise the BadLength error will cause the window manager to crash.

A long term fix for the libXft library has been included in the v2.3.5 release [ref].

If you are on a distribution with a version of the Xft library earlier than that then you may need to upgrade the library manually or wait for it to be updated via official channels.

Additionally you will need to use a font that has colour emoji characters. The Noto Color Emoji font is a good one to test with.

Also note that the size of the emojis depends on the font size, so you may need to use a different font size for the emoji font compared to what you use for other fonts in order for emojis to look about the same size as the rest of the text.

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