The issue seem to appear when multiple fonts can provide the emojis. What seems to me is that the noto-color-emojis are not necessarily the first in the list. I had for exaple other font-noto packages and they were hiding the color emojis. I removed all the others and now I can see the color ones again.
The fact that user fonts have priority over system fonts is the reason for why the previous workaround works. However, in order to fix this bug, we need to think first, what should be fixed? Option 1: the issue is just that the user is unaware -> keep the current behaviour and eventually find a way to inform the user of what font has the highest priority to provide emojis, possibly at install time. (This should be possible, given that Chrome does this) Option 2: the issue is the mechanism -> we could have some configuration for a default emoji-provider, and have it handled with update- alternatives, the same way one can set the vanilla or ubuntu or pop gdm theme. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-noto-color-emoji in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1859926 Title: fonts-noto-color-emoji not making pretty emojis in google chrome Status in fonts-noto-color-emoji package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Google-Chrome and emoji's is being a weird headache. Something's causing it not to find the right font to make emoji's: "[13743:1:0115/225907.016533:ERROR:child_process_sandbox_support_impl_linux.cc(79)] FontService unique font name matching request did not receive a response. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-noto-color-emoji/+bug/1859926/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
