A simple GNOME Shell extension that lets you search and copy ASCII emoji from your panel without needing to open a browser and hit up a website.
A paint splatter, super-tired face, and a harp are among new emoji users of Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS will be able to see and type after installing an update to the Noto Color Emoji font. Ubuntu, […]
A brown mushroom, a slice of lime, and a fiery phoenix — no, that’s not the start of a rubbish joke but a selection of the 118 new emoji added to the Unicode standard. And […]
New emoji? Ubuntu's got 'em - well, the latest Google's Noto Color Emoji font has. Ubuntu devs have released an update that brings these emoji to LTS users.
Developers are hoping to get ICU 66 packaged up in Ubuntu 20.04. The update adds support for Unicode 13, due for release in March.
KDE Plasma 5.18 comes with a new emoji selector tool. Plasma desktop users can press a keyboard shortcut to access the emoji picker.
OpenMoji is an open source emoji library that's free to use. The set has over 3000 glyphs, supports Unicode's Emoji 12.0 spec, and is available as a font.
Messaging scheduling is among the new features added to the hugely popular Telegram messaging service. Telegram 1.8.3 (v5.11 on mobile) introduces the ability to schedule messages. This feature could prove particularly useful for Telegram group […]
Ubuntu offers a quick and effortless way to type emoji on Ubuntu — and in this short post we show you how to use it. So long as you’re using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or later you can […]
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will support color emoji in desktop apps, a move that will let Ubuntu users both see emoji and use an emoji picker to enter glyphs.
If you're a regular readers you'll know how I've longed to see full color emoji support on Linux — and it seems, at long last, I'm very close to getting it!
Emoji support on Linux is sort of lacking — but love ’em or loathe ’em, the Unicode-embedded smileys are everywhere. We’ve shown you before how to see color emoji on Ubuntu using EmojiOne, and highlighted […]
Emoji Keyboard is a Linux app that lets you quickly insert emoji into desktop apps and websites, without needing to resort to copy and paste.
LibreOffice 5.3 is now available to download, and The Document Foundation is calling it 'one of the most feature-rich releases in the history of the application'!
You folks must think that I’m obsessed with Emoji, but you’d be …No, you’d be absolutely right about that. Actually, I don’t overuse the popular pictorial glyphs that dominate daily communication. But I do appreciate being […]
Fedora 25 Workstation makes it incredibly easy to type emoji using just your keyboard. And I’m very jealous. If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you’ll you know how much hassle it can be […]
Want a quick way to search for emoji on Linux? Sure you do, cos these little pictographic blighters have risen to become a common way to express nuanced sentiment or context within conversations. To help, try the simply named emoj. […]
Firefox 50 comes bundled with an Emoji One font, enabling Linux users to see full colour emoji on the web.