Colored Characters and Emoji in dmenu and dwm

Due to a fix I've mentioned before on my channel, you can now get colored emoji and other characters in your suckless software, just install libxft-bgra (or wait until the upstream fix) and you can see them in st without crashes. In dwm and dmenu, however, there was previously added a little block of code that disallows color emojis in any case, so in order to properly see them after the fix (rather than boxes) you have to make this little change to the source code.

[jimbarino]

Please, the preferred nomenclature is "Emojis of Color".

[dominikheinz]

mfw when 50% of Luke's vids are about emojis.

[flarone]

You're my favorite xorg pleb, Luke.

[xijinpingpong]

Hey Luke, a review from you of Gnome 3 would be realy interesting and much appreciated.

[gogll]

Luke Smith is my favourite emoji content creator

[nevin]

Wow, I was just looking to do this. Thank you so much for making this video 👍

[TerrorZwerg]

Why on earth would i ever need emojis in my command line

[Anon-trlq]

Man you could make an entire playlist on emojis

[AtomToast]

nice, I already figured this out a few days ago from digging through your repos. Still nice to have such a video

[Microphunktv-jbkj]

If you're not using i3, what are you using then... ?
doom emacs or spacemacs? something else?

[msjche]

thanks Luke. long time awesomeWM guy, but I'm now switched over to dwm. lovin it!
could you go over what the dwmblocks "update signal" means. haven't been able to find out what that's all about.

[MrJoseklon]

Luke any linguistics or NotRelated! content on the way?

[pefclic]

bspwm provides more than dwm and i3 and doesn't require having to compile anything in order to add new behaviors. Having to combine multiple patches for different versions of dwm is very tedious and time consuming and you could lost anything when dwm is updated : a lot of patches are for older version and are not updated anymore.
And you provide a very nice starting configuration for it :)

[MaidLucy]

I'm using sway since over a year. And it's sad that suckless won't support Wayland since I'm SOO done with Xorg.

[omerresnikoff]

Question: Can you use dwm with my own polybar?

[duoquote]

I wonder what do you think about cat <<EOF>file thingy, i think that was called heredocs or something.

[zZGzHD]

tbh i like dwm's stacking workflow but i moved to bspwm because im tired of solving patch conflicts. it's also annoying that dwm has an arbitrary LOC limit while also trying to be both a window manager and a system bar.

[natanaelrabello]

Worked like a charm, thank you so much for sharing!

[SimGunther]

Spark linux or just jump onto arch linux without systemd worries?

[teunissenstefan]

Sadly not working for me :(


Edit: nevermind, I am an idiot. Thank you, I was actually looking for this a long time.