dmenu-emoji 💃
Search an emoji by name and copy it to the clipboard. Works best with a dmenu variant that does fuzzy search such as rofi, but it's compatible with plain dmenu.
If possible, it also sends a desktop notification for better user feedback.
[Click the screenshot for a 4MB GIF of how the emoji in the header was added]
Usage with i3
Download dmenu-emoji.sh, make sure it's executable (chmod + x <file>), and store it somewhere in your home directory (or in your $PATH if you prefer). Assign a keystroke in your i3 configuration:
# ~/.config/i3/config
bindsym $mod+space exec path/to/dmenu-emoji.sh
dmenu-emoji.sh is the only file you need, the rest of the files in this repository are scripts to generate that one, which you don't need unless you want to modify it (PRs welcome!).
Tweeking the dmenu command
By default, dmenu is called. If you want to use a different menu or pass some option to it, you can use the list and copy subcommands:
# ~/.config/i3/config
bindsym $mod+space exec dmenu-emoji.sh list | rofi -dmenu -p 'Emoji: ' | dmenu-emoji.sh copy
Similar scripts
- emoji.sh. One liner, requests emojis each time, no autocomplete
- rofimoji. Python-based, rofi only, can insert directly instead of copy&paste
- emoji-rofi-menu. Rofi only, can insert directly
- rofi-emoji. Python-based (but generates a bash script so Python is not used each time), rofi only, inserts-directly
It takes very little time to write so there are probably more 😅