Emote
by Tom Watson
Modern popup emoji picker
About
Emote is a modern emoji picker for Linux 🚀
Written in GTK3, Emote is lightweight and stays out of your way.
Launch the emoji picker with the configurable keyboard shortcut `Ctrl+Alt+E`, and select one or more emojis to paste them into the currently focused app.
- 🍾 Built as a popup: quick invocation, and disappears when not needed, does not stay as a standalone window
- 🫠 Provide a large and up-to-date list of emojis retrieved from openmoji.org
- 🧠 Shows the last used emojis by default
- 🔎 Search text box automatically focused and ready to type when invoked
- ⌨️ Can use shortcuts to navigate and select emojis
- ✒️ Selected emoji automatically pasted to your currently focused app (on X11 only)
Please note that:
⚡️ Emote shows up faster when invoked using the built-in keyboard shortcut (`Ctrl+Alt+E` by default), than when using a manually registered keyboard shortcut.
🪟 Emote under Wayland cannot automatically paste the emoji into other apps, and also requires manual registering of a global keyboard shortcut - (Hotkey In Wayland - github.com/tom-james-watson/Emote/wiki/Hotkey-In-Wayland). This is due to intentional restrictions in the design of Wayland itself.
Permissions
1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - GPU acceleration
--device=dri
Who publishes this
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publisher:flathub
Maintenance
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