rofimoji/README.md

Emoji-Picker

How often did you want to insert one of those Unicode emoji only to learn that there is no nice picker for Linux? Fear no more, this script uses the power of rofi to present exactly the picker you always wanted. Inserts the selected emoji directly, or copies it to the clipboard.

Usage

1. Run rofimoji.py
2. Search for the emoji you want
3. (optional) Select multiple emoji with shift+enter
4. Hit enter to insert the emoji directly \ Hit alt+c to copy it to the clipboard
5. Maybe select a skin color
6. 🎠

How does it look?

Installation

Arch

A kind soul has packaged it as rofimoji. To, install, use sudo pacman -Syu rofimoji.

AUR for Manjaro and others

If rofimoji is not yet synced to your distro’s repo, you can also install rofimoji-git from the AUR.

From sources

Download rofimoji.py and move it somewhere on your path, for example /usr/local/bin.

What else do you need:

• Python 3
• A font that can display emoji, for example EmojiOne or Noto Emoji
• xdotool for typing the emoji
• xsel to copy the emoji to the clipboard

For Ubuntu zesty: sudo aptitude install fonts-emojione python3 rofi xdotool xsel \ For Arch: sudo pacman -Syu emoji-font python rofi xdotool xsel

Updating the emojis

This is only needed if a new Unicode version came out and you can’t wait for the official update!

1. Install Python 3 and pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
2. Run extract_emojis.py - this downloads the complete list from https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.0/full-emoji-list.html, so don’t do it too often!
3. A new file emojis.py should have been created. Open it and copy the contents
4. Open rofimoji.py and replace the emoji list with the contents of emojis.py

FAQ

Why is it so pedestrian? Why not simply import from emojis.py?

Because now you only have to download one file, and it works  Additionally, we need no separate I/O just to load the emojis. This is good, right?