polybar: Emoji displaying incorrect size
Steps:
- Add emoji as a font
font-7 = NotoEmoji:size=7;
- use emoji character (here it’s in a webpage title, but it works on anything)
It ignores any size specification.
I don’t know if this has anything to do with colour emoji being only a recent addition to cairo?
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 7 years ago
- Comments: 21 (8 by maintainers)
I have been able to reduce the size of the emoji by specifying “scale” instead of “size”. e.g.
font-7 = NotoEmoji:scale=10;It is inversely proportional (a smaller number means larger characters).
My “solution” was to install Symbola (
apt install fonts-symbola,yaourt -S ttf-symbola) which is a monochrome font with extremely good coverage of the codespace.Yeah this works
@pvonmoradi Compound symbols don’t work in polybar in general, that’s why flags don’t work.