wofi-emoji 🥞

Simple emoji selector for Wayland using wofi with localization support through emojibase. It relies on wtype to paste the emojis when it's supported, otherwise, it just tries to copy it using wl-clipboard instead.

The original maintained repo can be found here: Zeioth/wofi-emoji

Usage

Usage: wofi-emoji [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -l, --languages LANG1,LANG2    Specify languages to fetch (comma-separated)
                                   Available: en, de, es, fr, it, pt, ru, ja, ko, zh, etc.
                                   For full list see: https://emojibase.dev/emojis
                                   Default: en
    -f, --force                    Force refresh of cached database
    -h, --help                     Show this help message

Examples:
    wofi-emoji                    # Use English only (default)
    wofi-emoji -l en,de           # Use English and German
    wofi-emoji -l de,fr,es -f     # Use German, French, Spanish and force refresh db

Example: wofi-emoji -l de,en

Searchable strings for emojis are output in this format "Language 1 Description" - "Language 2 Description" - ... (Keywords for all the chosen languages)

Example Configuration for Sway and Hyprland

Download wofi-emoji, ensure it's executable and somewhere in your $PATH.

Add a shortcut key in your sway config:

# ~/.config/sway/config

bindsym Mod4+e exec wofi-emoji # -l en,de,fr,..

Or in your Hyprland Config for Windows-Style emoji functionality:

# ~/.config/hypr/config/keybindings.conf

bindd = $mainMod, PERIOD, Emoji Picker, exec, wofi-emoji # -l en,de,fr,...