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emojis are are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and Web pages.

The word emoji comes from a Japanese 'e' (絵, "picture") + 'moji' (文字, "character"). They are commonly seen through many different computer systems such as Linux, Windows and MacOS as well as being widely used on modern smart phones, tablets and similar devices.

Links

  • Emoji Wikipedia article
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How to insert an emoji into a text in Ubuntu 18.04 and later?

What are the possibilities to insert, choose and use an emoji in Ubuntu 18.04 and later?
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18.04: color emoji not showing up at all in Chrome, only partially in Firefox

I've upgraded from 17.10 to 18.04 and was hoping to have better emoji support. The results are that Chrome (66) is still using the old black and white emoji font, and Firefox (59) is managing to show some color emoji but not others. I took some…
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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…
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How do I disable emoji input in Ubuntu Mate 18.04?

Just noticed this annoying emoji input ("Emoji Choice") popping up every time I press Ctrl+Shift+E in 18.04. I really need this shortcut to switch to the file explorer in Visual Studio Code but instead I only get the emoji input. Is there a way to…
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How can I change the keyboard shortcut for Emoji picker?

Shift+Ctrl+E are invoking the Emoji picker in Ubuntu Bionic (18.04). I use that shortcut in another application. How can I change the shortcut?
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Ubuntu 18.04 fresh installation, Thunderbird inbox "invaded" by large icons (coloured emojis)

From my old HD (Ubuntu 16.04) I copied ~/.thunderbird and other programs to the new disk with Ubuntu 18.04 installed. All went good. I tried to install Opera. The installation was unsuccessful, a window asking something was held. After that…
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Emoji picker in Ubuntu like what Windows 10 and macOS offer

To open an emoji panel, in Windows, I can press the Win key and period. On Mac, I can open an emoji panel via Control + Command + Spacebar. What is a convenient way to open a similar emoji panel in Ubuntu? I don't want the Characters app, which is…
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Cannot Use Emoji within Browsers

This is probably a really simple fix, but I cannot for the life of me get emoji to work in any browser (Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi) on Ubuntu Desktop 20.04. I can bring up the picker with Ctrl+Alt+E and Ctrl+. in applications such as Text…
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Emoji disappear when I print, export to pdf, or download a pdf after update to 20.04

I recently updated to 20.04 and I love the new full range of full color emoji but they disappear when I print, export to PDF or even if I download a pdf from email. I thought it was a libre office issue at first until I noticed them disappear from…
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Enable color emojis in Chrome, Xubuntu 18.04.1

I have followed this question: 18.04: color emoji not showing up at all in Chrome, only partially in Firefox, installed fonts-noto-color-emoji manually, but color emojis are still not showing up in Chrome or VS Code. Color emojis work in Mousepad,…
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“Emoji Choice” popup (Ctrl-Shift-E) stopped working in 20.10

In previous versions of Ubuntu, one could press Ctrl-Shift-E in any text input area to activate the “Emoji Choice” popup – see, for example, these answers to “What does [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [e] do, while typing text?” or “How to insert an emoji into a…
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Why Does My Emoji Picker ibus Key Combo Fail to Respond in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic

When I press Ctrl+Shift+E in a native Linux app (e.g., Gedit, TODO, Geary, etc), nothing happens. Why is this, and how can I get a key combo for the default system emoji menu to work? I have tried setting it to a different key combo with ibus-setup.…
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How do I configure the default emoji font to be used in OS/Browser? (it's currently Symbola but I want Noto)

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS. The emoji font I want to use system wide (in the OS and in the Browser) is the non-color version of Noto or: NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf (provided by Google) How do I configure it to be default instead of Symbola (which is…
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Does Ubuntu 18.04 show filenames containing emojis in colour?

I've recently transferred some files made on Mac OS, and containing emojis in their filename, to my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine. The emojis show up in Nautilus, albeit monochromatic. Will I see them in full color if I switch to 18.04 LTS?
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EmojiOne Color font doesn't replace black and white emoji font in Firefox or Chrome

Just yesterday, I installed the EmojiOne Color SVGinOT Font (fonts-emojione-svginot) for Ubuntu via the Launchpad PPA method. On the emoji demo page, all the emoji display in color on my laptop. But emoji like (tears of joy) show up as their black…
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