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Emoji are interesting emoticons in the Unicode character space, and they have become popular all over the Internet. Emoji can be used to express your mood on social media or as a visual tag for important file names.

Preparatory work

First, you need a Linux system that runs GNOME desktops.

You also need to install a font that supports emoji. There are many fonts that meet this requirement. Use your favorite package manager to directly search emoji and choose an installation.

For example, on Fedora:

$sudo dnf search emojiemoji-picker.noarch: An emoji selection toolunicode-emoji.noarch: Unicode Emoji Data Fileseosrei-emojione-fonts.noarch: A color emoji fonttwitter-twemoji-fonts.noarch: Twitter Emoji for everyonegoogle-android-emoji-fonts.noarch: Android Emoji font released by Googlegoogle-noto-emoji-fonts.noarch: Google "Noto Emoji" Black-and-White emoji fontgoogle-noto-emoji-color-fonts.noarch: Google "Noto Color Emoji" colored emoji font [.]

For Ubuntu or Debian, apt search is required.

In this article, I will use the font Google Noto Color Emoji as an example.

Set up

To start the setup, first open the settings panel of GNOME.

1. In the left sidebar, select the category "region and language Region & Language".

2. Click the plus sign (+) below the "input source Input Sources" option to open the "add input source Add an Input Source" panel.

3. In the "add input Source Add an Input Source" panel, click the menu button at the bottom.

4. Slide to the bottom of the list and select "other Other".

5. In the "other Other" list, find "other Other (Quick input Typing Booster)".

6. Click the "add Add" button in the upper right corner to add the input source to the GNOME desktop.

Once the above is done, you can close the settings panel.

Switch to Quick input

Now a new icon appears in the upper-right corner of the GNOME desktop, which is usually a two-letter abbreviation for the current language (for example, English is en, Esperanto is eo, Spanish is es, and so on). If you press the super key Super key (that is, the keyboard key with the Linux Penguin / Windows logo / Mac Command logo) + Spacebar, you will switch to the next input source in the input list. Here, we only have two input sources, that is, the default language and fast input.

You can try using this key combination to observe the changes in the icon.

Configure Quick input

In Quick input mode, click the input source icon in the upper right corner, select the "Unicode symbol and emoji Lenovo Unicode symbols and emoji predictions" option, and set it to "on On".

Now you can enter emoji in Quick input mode. This is exactly what we need now, and of course the function of fast input mode is more than that.

Enter emoji

In Quick input mode, open a text editor, a web browser, or any software that supports typing Unicode characters. Type "thumbs up" and Quick input mode will help you quickly match the emoji.

To exit emoji mode, simply use the super key + spacebar key again and the input source will switch back to your default input language.

Use other switching methods

If you think the combination of "super key + space bar" is not easy to use, you can also change it to a combination of other keys. Select "device Device" → "Keyboard Keyboard" in the GNOME Settings panel.

On the Keyboard Keyboard page, change "switch to the next input source Switch to next input source" to your favorite key combination.

Enter Unicode

In fact, modern keyboards are designed to enter 26 letters and as many numbers and symbols as possible. But there are already far more ASCII characters than can be seen on the keyboard, let alone millions of Unicode characters. So, if you want to type Unicode in a Linux application, but don't want to use quick typing, you can try Unicode typing.

Open any software that supports entering Unicode characters, but still use your default input language to enter Unicode input mode using Ctrl+Shift+U key combinations. In Unicode input mode, you only need to enter the corresponding sequence number of a Unicode character to achieve the input of this Unicode character. For example, 1F44D corresponds to?, while 2620 corresponds to ☠. To see the corresponding sequence numbers of all Unicode characters, refer to the Unicode specification.

The practicability of emoji

Emoji can make your text different, which is how interesting and expressive they are. Emoji is also very useful because they are essentially Unicode characters, they can be used in many places where custom fonts are supported, and they are not much different from other regular characters. Therefore, you can use emoji to mark different files, and you can use emoji to filter out these files quickly when searching.

You can make the most of emoji in Linux, because Linux is a Unicode-friendly environment and will have better and better support for Unicode in the future.

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