Enabling Colour Emoji in DWM on Slackware
DWM is a great window manager but one of it's drawbacks is that it doesn't support colour emojis due to an issue with libxft.
Arch users can solve this problem by installing libxft-bgra from the AUR, but the rest of us are left to figure it out on our own.
This is what this video is all about, and I demo my solution on Slackware.
Firstly I grab the libxft sources and patch them:
git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/l...
url -Ls https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/l... | patch -p1
I then configure:
CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -fcommon" \
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC -fcommon" \
./autogen.sh \
--prefix=/usr \
--libdir=/usr/lib64 \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--infodir=/usr/info \
--mandir=/usr/man \
--docdir=/usr/doc/libXft-git \
--disable-static \
--build=x86_64-slackware-linux
And after removing Slackware's own libxft I make install.
Finally I create a Slackware package for libxft-bgra.
I hope you enjoy the video :-)
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