deadvey/dmenu-emoticon

Search an emoticon by name and copy it to the clipboard [i3, dmenu, rofi] (forked from dmenu-emoji)

dmenu-emoticon ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Search an emoticon 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

• bemoji. Bash based, supports copying or typing emoji on both Wayland and X11. Remembers your favorite selections.
• 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
• dmenu-fontawesome. Search an fontawesome icon by name and copy it to the clipboard.

It takes very little time to write so there are probably more XD

This is a fork of dmenu-emoji and is basically the same but with emoticons instead :/