Emojis missing in application launcher and emoji selector

[headfirst7231]

I’m using KDE Plasma, x11. Below are the full configurations of my setup:

I seem to be missing some emojis, as evidenced by my application launcher and the emoji selector sidebar:

• Development, Education, Internet and Office seem to have their respective emojis as their icons, but the other categories are missing their emojis and are defaulting to grayscale emojis.

• Only All, Activities, Flags, Symbols and Travel and Places have their grayscale emojis and the others are missing

Per a related thread, I followed a tip to enable color emojis, and installed ttf-twemoji in addition to the already installed noto-fonts-emoji and created a fonts.conf file in ~/.config/fontconfig.

The content of the fonts.conf file are:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <alias>
  <family>sans-serif</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Sans</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Twemoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
  <family>serif</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Serif</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Twemoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <alias>
  <family>monospace</family>
  <prefer>
   <family>Noto Mono</family>
   <family>Noto Color Emoji</family>
   <family>Twemoji</family>
   <family>Noto Emoji</family>
  </prefer>
 </alias>
 <dir>~/.local/share/fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

My default fonts are set to the default Noto Fonts:

I have the latest version of noto-fonts related packages installed:

I have the latest version of ttf-twemoji installed:

What can I do to fix the issue of missing emoji/icons?

[ddnn]

Did you turn if off and turn it back on?

No, like really, have you rebooted since updating your system with sudo pacman -Syu and making sure you have all the necessary packages?

[headfirst7231]

I’ve tried logging out and back in, and a system reboot. Also made sure that my system is up-to-date with eos-update --yay, sudo pacman -Syu, and another yay for good measure.

Unfortunately, no dice.

[headfirst7231]

Also tried re-logging into Wayland instead of x11, and still seeing the same.

[ddnn]

Try creating a new user account, log in, then check if they are available. If they are, something in your current user settings is the issue. If they aren’t, then I’d recommend a different font selector.

I use emote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emote

I launch it with the shortcut Super + L (for laugh)

[headfirst7231]

Try creating a new user account, log in, then check if they are available. If they are, something in your current user settings is the issue. If they aren’t, then I’d recommend a different font selector.

Brilliant suggestion, thank you. I tried just that, and the new account is not impacted. I did notice that the application launcher icons/emojis are whitescale in the test profile with default settings, so it must either be the icon pack and some other customization setting in my profile. I’ll do some more digging and see if I can get to the bottom of this. Thank you!

[headfirst7231]

Did some additional digging, and it turns out it was the icon pack I was using (ePapirus). Using the default Breeze Dark has resolved the issues I was seeing with the application launcher and emoji selector:

I personally really liked the look of the ePapirus icon pack, but I’d rather not see the missing icons in my system, so I’ll stick with Breeze for now.

Thank you for the suggestion.

[ddnn]

You can try the Tela icon theme. It’s a full icon theme, so it’s likely to work better.