Rofi emoji plugin

An emoji selector plugin for Rofi that can either insert the emoji directly or copy it to the clipboard.

Usage

Run rofi like:

rofi -show emoji -modi emoji

Key	Effect
`Enter`	Insert emoji
`Shift`+`Enter`	Copy emoji to clipboard

Note: If you change your keybinds for kb-accept or kb-accept-alt, then your changes will also apply here.

Screenshot

Installation

Dependencies

Dependency	Version
rofi	1.4 (or git)
xsel
xdotool

Arch Linux

rofi-emoji can be installed via AUR: rofi-emoji

Compile from source

rofi-emoji uses autotools as build system. Download the source and run the following to install it:

$ autoreconf -i
$ mkdir build
$ cd build/
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local # use same prefix as rofi
$ make
$ sudo make install

Rofi prefix

You should be able to find rofi's prefix using these commands:

# Simplest to understand; resolve "which rofi" to the real path (in case it is a symlink),
# then resolve its grandparent (/usr/local/bin/rofi -> /usr/local/bin -> /usr/local)
realpath -mL "$(realpath -L "$(which rofi)")/../.."

# This might work if you don't have realpath(1) installed. It uses dirname
twice instead of realpath -Lm to go up two steps.
dirname "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$(which rofi)")")"

# Still didn't work? That leaves you with your human intuition.
ls -l "$(which rofi)"

Emoji database

When installing the emoji database (emoji-test.txt file) is installed in $PREFIX/share/rofi-emoji. The plugin will search $XDG_DATA_DIRS for a directory where share/rofi-emoji.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 was downloaded using

curl -o emoji-test.txt "https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/11.0/emoji-test.txt"

Try downloading it again. Maybe bumping the version in the URL first.

License

This plugin is released under the MIT license.

norpol/rofi-emoji