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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?

drzel
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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?

13rac1
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Our wait is finally over guys!
Emojis are supported by default inside terminal, from Ubuntu 18 on.

Check your version with:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch)
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic

Not strictly related, but here is a screenshot of how it plays with https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-emojify, npm package that uses emojis for automation messages:

Ubuntu terminal executing Gulp command, with a waiting message displaying a Beer and a Coffee emoji

(You may have to sudo apt install fonts-emojione)

Kamafeather
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suside
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In GNOME Terminal (it also works in any other application), use the following keyboard shortcut:

  1. Hit Control-Shift-E, then press Space.
  2. You should see the Emoji Choice popup where you can select your unicode character.

Emoji Choice on GNOME Terminal, Animals & Nature, Unicode special characters

Tested on Ubuntu Cosmic (18.10).

kenorb
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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.

wyqydsyq
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In your bashrc script...

vim ~/.bashrc

You can define an array of emoticons 

EMOJIS=(                            )

then if you have too much time on your hands, write a function which returns a random moj.

RANDOM_EMOJI() {
  SELECTED_EMOJI=${EMOJIS[$RANDOM % ${#EMOJIS[@]}]};
  echo $SELECTED_EMOJI;
}
EMJ() {
  emj
}
Zachary Gilbert
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