A small fork of https://github.com/nkoehring/rofiemoji that copies the formatting (and emoji list with with tags) from https://github.com/mange/rofi-emoji.
Compared to the former, you can type "grin" and get the beaming face, while compared to the later, it's a script instead of a C plugin.
The list of emojis is automatically downloaded and formated when used for the first time.
- An emoji capable font, for example Noto Emoji or Noto Color Emoji.
- xsel to copy the selection to the clipboard. You should find it in your package manager.
rofi -modi 'run,drun,emoji:/path/to/rofimoji/rofimoji.sh' -show emoji
Enter
copies the selected emoji into the clipboard. Requires xsel to work.