[Font Problem] Weird characters appear before emojis

[karx1]

• What does rofimoji show instead of the emojis? Can you please share a screenshot (`Alt+Shift+s** in rofimoji)

• What do other apps like Firefox/Chrome/your text editor show instead of emojis?
  • Just the emoji, no square
• Which emoji fonts do you have installed?
  • ttf-twemoji
• Are the emoji fonts set in your font config?
  • No, but this used to work fine until the latest update
• Which versions of rofimoji and pango are installed?
  • pango 1:1.50.9-1 and rofimoji 5.5.0-1 (Arch Linux)

[karx1]

I'm running rofi 1.7.5-1 as well

[fdw]

Could it be that your rofi theme uses icons? Or do you use a custom file?

[karx1]

My rofi theme doesn't use icons, the squares don't show up when I launch rofi to open an app. Adding `-no-show-icons` to the selector-args in rofimoji doesn't do anything either.

[fdw]

Thanks 🙂 Another idea: Which font do you use for text? And could you please paste your rofi configuration?

Also. which update broke it? rofimoji? Something else?

[karx1]

Hi, I use the Cascadia Code font, but I don't think that's the issue because I tried it with a couple of other fonts and the issue remains. I updated rofi and rofimoji at the same time, so I'm not sure which update it was that broke it exactly.

[fdw]

Could you please add your rofi configuration and theme?

[karx1]

My rofi configuration and theme are at https://git.karx.xyz/karx/dotfiles/src/branch/master/.config/rofi and my rofimoji config is at https://git.karx.xyz/karx/dotfiles/src/branch/master/.config/rofimoji.rc

[fdw]

Thanks. I've tried your theme, but it works fine for me. Also on latest rofi and rofimoji.

I'm grasping for straws, but what's your Python version?

[karx1]

My python version is Python 3.10.6, and it was updated at the same time as rofi and rofimoji.

[karx1]

So I downgraded rofi to 1.7.3-1, and now the squares don't show up. This seems to be an issue with rofi and not rofimoji.

Edit: With further testing, it seems that this bug showed up in rofi 1.7.4

[fdw]

Thanks for that testing! I don't see what rofimoji could do differently to fix that.

Have you opened a bug against rofi?

[MosaicMan]

I was having the same issue in Arch Linux. For some reason, running it as a rofi mode does not show the weird squares before the emoji:

rofi -show emoji -modi emoji:/usr/bin/rofimoji

[alpheratz0]

Hi, I git bisect'd rofi and found that this behavior was introduced in the
following commit of rofi: davatorium/rofi@be6fe8ac.
It replaced the dot indicator with a checkbox (those weird characters) when
the -multi-select option of rofi-dmenu is passed, you cannot disable that
directly from rofimoji because it doesn't have an option to just pick a single
emoji and it always starts rofi-dmenu with the -multi-select option enabled.

[A-F-V]

I was having the same issue in Arch Linux. For some reason, running it as a rofi mode does not show the weird squares before the emoji:

rofi -show emoji -modi emoji:/usr/bin/rofimoji

I observed similiar effect. However, (on my system) using that command no longer inserts the emoji into the application like running rofimoji does. Any ideas?

[fdw]

Thanks for the work, @alpheratz0! That explains a lot.
I'd like to work on the issue, but I currently cannot reproduce it as my rofi is too old. Please be patient 🙂

However, (on my system) using that command no longer inserts the emoji into the application like running rofimoji does. Any ideas?

This is a known limitation of the script mode, sorry.

[alpheratz0]

Thanks for the work, @alpheratz0! That explains a lot. I'd like to work on the issue, but I currently cannot reproduce it as my rofi is too old. Please be patient slightly_smiling_face

It's not a big problem, I can wait 😆

Cheers!

[fdw]

I've just pushed something that should help with this problem. Please try it and report back!
If it works, I'll push out a release in the next days.

[karx1]

The new commit works for me on rofi 1.7.5, the squares no longer show up.

[fdw]

Release is out 🙂