No emoji output to terminal
mjKosmic opened this issue · 7 comments
I am running awesomewm with alacritty on arch and i can output emojis just fine to GUI applications like a web browser or discord, but alacritty and vim/neovim just don't like something and refuse to receive the emojis correctly
Sorry but i can't reproduce this issue.
When you say "correctly" what does that exactly mean?
And which input method are you using?
It's with any of the available methods. It looks like it's not setting my copy-paste buffer. When i select an emoji, it transfers focus back to the original window just fine but doesn't output anything. If i copy some other text, then try to select an emoji, i can still paste the other text i copied previously
Interestingly if i press enter a couple of times this shows up
It shouldn't even need copy-paste.
Maybe i have to setup a vm with awesomewm to test it.
I just now had pretty much the same issue: emojis wouldn't enter in thunderbird or konsole.
But i found that copy pasting using ctrl+a & ctrl+c into an editor where it did work (in your case firefox i guess), did reveal that emojis were written and just not visible in thunderbird because of the selected emoji font in my fontconfig. After i changed it to for example "Noto Emoji", it worked again.
So what I'm saying is: try to check if emojis really aren't written or if they're just invisible. You can do this by copying an emoji from here maybe ( 😋 ) and pasting it into alactritty.
First line is me cycling through all 4 input methods.
Second line is me pasting emoji from a GUI application directly into the terminal (wezterm in my case, under qtile WM)
I also think ctrl+V is not the best way to handle pasting on linux, but maybe that mode was intended for windows
Weirdly enough, I can half-reproduce this on alacritty (i.e. 50% of the time it pastes fine and 50% of the time it pastes nothing) but not consistently
Either way, the wm shouldn't matter, since it's the application itself that dictates the behaviours
You're right, using ctrl+v to paste into a terminal shouldn't normally work. 😅
But as i said above, the default input method should work just fine with alacritty.
I wonder if this is simply some kind of timing issue where the clipboard isn't updated in time for the ctrl+v request because i also get similar issues when trying to insert alot of emojis in a row.
Now i could add some kind of sleep into the insert function and wait idk 100ms but idk. 😶