Rofi emoji plugin

An emoji selector plugin for Rofi that copies the selected emoji to the clipboard.

Usage

Run rofi like:

rofi -show emoji -modi emoji

Key	Effect
Enter	Copy emoji to clipboard

Note: If you change your keybind for kb-accept, then your change will also apply here.

Screenshot

Dependencies

Dependency	Version
rofi	1.4 (or git)

Optional dependencies

In order to actually use rofi-emoji some "adapters" need to be installed, as appropriate for your environment.

Dependency	Notes
xsel	For X11.
xclip	For X11.
wl-clipboard	For Wayland. (Untested!)

Installation

Arch Linux

pacman -S rofi-emoji

Manjaro

pacman -S rofi-emoji

Void Linux

xbps-install -S rofi-emoji

NixOS

nix-env -e rofi-emoji

Compile from source

rofi-emoji uses autotools as build system. On Debian/Ubuntu based systems you will need to install the packages first:

• rofi-dev
• autoconf
• libtool
• libtool-bin

Download the source and run the following to install it:

autoreconf -i
mkdir build
cd build/
../configure
make
sudo make install

Emoji database

When installing the emoji database (all_emojis.txt file) is installed in $PREFIX/share/rofi-emoji. The plugin will search $XDG_DATA_DIRS for a directory where rofi-emoji/all_emojis.txt exists in. If the plugin cannot find the data, make sure $XDG_DATA_DIRS is set correctly.

If it is unset it should default to /usr/local/share:/usr/share, which works with the most common prefixes.

Updating to a newer version

The list is copied from the Mange/emoji-data repo.

License

This plugin is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more details.