N3dst4's questions

I've upgraded from 17.10 to 18.04 and was hoping to have better emoji support. The results are that Chrome (66) is still using the old black and white emoji font, and Firefox (59) is managing to show some color emoji but not others. I took some advice to install the font EmojiOne but that didn't seem to help ?

Screenshots from the emoji demo page at http://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html :

Chrome:

Firefox:

I've found the settings for automatic locking and turned it off. This has worked in that I no longer need to enter my password when waking the computer. But there's still a big orange screen in the way which I need to click through or hit escape to dismiss before I can actually see the desktop. Can this be disabled at all?