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Looking for a better emoji picker (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by meekah@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm on KDE Plasma using wayland, and I'm annoyed with KDE's emoji picker. Well, the interface is fine, I just want emojis to immediately be pasted into the text field that was in focus when I used the shortcut to launch the emoji picker. Basically I want the behavior to be as close to the Windows emoji picker as possible.

Does anyone know of an alternative that allows me to quickly type 2 different emojis in succession? Bonus points when it's easily available on arch.

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[–] meekah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

hmm, might be worth my while to put my most used emojis into that config file.. thanks for the input!

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's exactly why I always enable the Compose key. It's the fastest and easiest way to just type a variety of Unicode glyphs. The key combinations trend to be intuitive as well.

There's a good chance the default config file will have a pretty decent selection. Although I have edited the config in the past, I haven't done it under KDE. The KDE article on setting up the compose key seems to say that KDE uses a different config file anyways.

Turning on the Compose key is pretty straightforward as I recall, just another setting under Keyboard settings. Finding that config file is still useful if you can't guess the right combo for your desired glyph.

Very useful for using character common in math and science.

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks for the link! I couldn't get ibus-uniemoji to work properly, so I'll probably have to settle for this.