Emojis are not showing up

[kmille]

Steps to reproduce

1. Use chat
2. send emoji or react with an emoji (only some appear and the ones that appear are not as nice as the one in the browser)

See this screenshots:

In the browser I see wonderful emojis.

I'm using v2.1.1 on Arch Linux. This is how it is built on Arch Linux (just downloads the pre-built builds):
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=nextcloud-talk-desktop-bin

Are there some fonts missing I need to install? Is it an Arch problem? It would be really nice to have emojis to give thumb ups :)

kmille@spring:~# nextcloud-talk -h
Could not install Vue Devtools Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir '/home/kmille/.config/nextcloud-talk/extensions/vuejs-devtools'
    at async Object.mkdir (node:internal/fs/promises:860:10)
    at async installVueDevtools (/opt/nextcloud-talk-desktop/resources/app.asar/.webpack/main/index.js:2:27917)
    at async /opt/nextcloud-talk-desktop/resources/app.asar/.webpack/main/index.js:2:182998 {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'mkdir',
  path: '/home/kmille/.config/nextcloud-talk/extensions/vuejs-devtools'
}

[Antreesy]

Hi!

Would you be able to build a client from this PR to check, if problem still persists? #1672

[kmille]

Can you give me some help:

kmille@spring:~/projects/talk-desktop# sudo chmod 4755 /home/kmille/projects/talk-desktop/node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox
kmille@spring:~/projects/talk-desktop#
kmille@spring:~/projects/talk-desktop# npm run dev

> talk-desktop@2.1.1 dev
> electron-forge start

✔ Checking your system
✔ Locating application
✔ Loading configuration
✔ Preparing native dependencies [0.9s]
✔ Running generateAssets hook
  ✔ Running generateAssets hook from forgeConfig
✔ Running preStart hook
  ✔ [plugin-webpack] Preparing webpack bundles
    ✔ Compiling main process code [2s]
    ✔ Launching dev servers for renderer process code [53s]
      › Output Available: http://localhost:9005
✔ Launched Electron app. Type rs in terminal to restart main process.

[dotenv@17.2.3] injecting env (1) from .env -- tip: ⚙️   write to custom object with { processEnv: myObject }
Building with a build configuration:
{
  "appleAppBundleId": "com.nextcloud.talk.mac",
  "linuxAppId": "com.nextcloud.talk",
  "winAppId": "com.nextcloud.talk",
  "description": "Official desktop client for Nextcloud Talk",
  "applicationName": "Nextcloud Talk",
  "domain": null,
  "enforceDomain": false,
  "brandColor": "#0082C9",
  "brandGradient": "linear-gradient(40deg, #0082c9 0%, #1cafff 100%)",
  "brandFontColor": "#FFFFFF",
  "helpUrl": "https://nextcloud.com/talk/",
  "privacyUrl": "https://nextcloud.com/privacy/",
  "primaryColor": "#00679e",
  "backgroundColor": "#00679e",
  "windowsExe": true,
  "windowsMsi": true,
  "macosDmg": true,
  "linuxFlatpak": true,
  "linuxZip": true,
  "isBranded": false,
  "companyName": "Nextcloud GmbH",
  "copyright": "Copyright (c) 2026 Nextcloud GmbH",
  "applicationNameSanitized": "NextcloudTalk",
  "isPlainBackground": false,
  "winSquirrelAppId": "NextcloudTalk",
  "winUpgradeCode": "1436ac6d-b00e-5232-8e39-1e1b6a6995c2"
}
[dotenv@17.2.3] injecting env (0) from .env -- tip: ⚙️   enable debug logging with { debug: true }
Started with built-in Nextcloud Talk v24.0.0-dev.0 on path: /home/kmille/projects/talk-desktop/spreed

The setuid sandbox is not running as root. Common causes:
  * An unprivileged process using ptrace on it, like a debugger.
  * A parent process set prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, ...)
Failed to move to new namespace: PID namespaces supported, Network namespace supported, but failed: errno = Operation not permitted
[580702:0309/131051.593297:FATAL:content/browser/zygote_host/zygote_host_impl_linux.cc:211] Check failed: . : Invalid argument (22)

I'm using linux-hardened. User network namespaces are not allowed I think. Is there a way to bypass this? The AUR package works...

[Antreesy]

I'm using linux-hardened

Sorry, have no idea on that. I guess, the issue might be caused by spinning up this dev environment; can you try npm run build:linux / npm run package:linux to make distributives, and then run them from OS?

[ShGKme]

Please, confirm you have this issue in .zip or .flatpak distributions

[kmille]

Same issue when using the zip files. ChatGPT solved it:

sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1 or ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX=1 npm run dev

Will report later if it's fixed by the draft MR. Now AFK

[ShGKme]

Will report later if it's fixed by the draft MR. Now AFK

That PR fixes the issue for Flatpak users, it is not relevant for any other distribution.

[ShGKme]

ChatGPT solved it:

sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1 or ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX=1 npm run dev

Did it solve the issue in .zip installation or AUR?

[kmille]

No just the build error was fixed. Will dig tomorrow... Any debug info you need?

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[ShGKme]

Any debug info you need?

Would be useful:

To have the list of emoji fonts in the system:

fc-list | grep -i emoji

And if you can open the developer tools in the client (context menu - Toggle), could you run this in the console and show as the result:

(await window.queryLocalFonts?.())?.map(font => font.fullName).filter(font => ["Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Segoe UI","Apple Color Emoji","Twemoji Mozilla","Noto Color Emoji","EmojiOne Color","Android Emoji"].includes(font)).toString()

It shows the list of emoji fonts available to the client.

[kmille]

Using latest GH zip and building/running it there with ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX=1 npm run dev, the problem still remains.

Maybe that's the issue (still wondering why Firefox has emojis):

kmille@spring:~# fc-list | grep -i emoji
kmille@spring:~# 

(await window.queryLocalFonts?.())?.map(font => font.fullName).filter(font => ["Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Segoe UI","Apple Color Emoji","Twemoji Mozilla","Noto Color Emoji","EmojiOne Color","Android Emoji"].includes(font)).toString()
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Now I just need to figure out how to install fonts with emojis :-D