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.

  • silly goose meekahOP
    2•1 month ago

    This is definitely a good contender. I do already use 2 different keyboard layouts regularly, so I think it might get annoying when I’m trying to switch between those two. I’ll give it a go though, thank you!

    • @[email protected]
      1•6 days ago

      I just became the maintainer of the AUR package of ibus-uniemoji, please comment there if it’s still not working for you. I also updated to the new upstream version, it looks much better than on the gif.

      • silly goose meekahOP
        1•5 days ago

        I’ll check it out again, thanks!

        Kinda off topic, but after I played around with all these emoji boards, every time I reboot, my system keyboard layouts get reset. Any idea what may be causing this?

        • @[email protected]
          1•5 days ago

          I remember similar things happened to me when I fiddled some with settings which could be set up both on the DE and also on the system level. So I guess something similar happens here.

          Does it already reset if you are on the login screen, or if you open a tty?

          On the ArchWiki page on Xorg keyboard config there is a big warning:

          Note: XKB options can be overridden by the tools provided by some desktop environments such as GNOME and Plasma.

          • silly goose meekahOP
            1•5 days ago

            Ohh I didn’t realize there’s a difference between system and DE keyboard options. I’ll look into that, thanks