chore: update rofi-emoji to paste the emoji rather than copy 4963a48d
Steve · 2026-08-25 20:27 1 file(s) · +21 −5
rofi/scripts/rofi-emoji +21 −5
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#!/bin/sh
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# Requires: rofi, xclip, a color emoji font (Noto Color Emoji)
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# Requires: rofi, xclip, xdotool, a color emoji font (Noto Color Emoji)
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# Emoji and kaomoji picker: search by name, Enter copies the character to the
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# clipboard. There is no paste-into-the-window step because that needs xdotool
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# to fake a keystroke, which is not installed — copy and paste normally.
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# clipboard and pastes it into whatever window was focused before rofi opened.
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# Terminals don't bind plain ctrl+v to paste, so terminal window classes get
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# ctrl+shift+v instead; override the whole thing with ROFI_EMOJI_PASTE_KEYS.
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# Picks are remembered and float to the top, so the handful anyone actually
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# uses stop needing to be searched for.
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set -u
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    cat "$RECENT" "$DATA" | awk -F'\t' '!seen[$1]++ { printf "%s  %s\n", $1, $2 }'
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}
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TARGET_WIN=$(xdotool getactivewindow 2>/dev/null) || TARGET_WIN=

            

            
            

                
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CHOICE=$(rows | rofi -dmenu -i -no-custom -p "emoji" -matching normal) || exit 0

            

            
            

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[ -n "$CHOICE" ] || exit 0

            

            
            

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printf '%s' "$CHAR" | xclip -selection clipboard -i

            

            
            

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if [ -n "$TARGET_WIN" ]; then

            

            
            

                
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    TARGET_CLASS=$(xdotool getwindowclassname "$TARGET_WIN" 2>/dev/null || echo)

            

            
            

                
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    case "$TARGET_CLASS" in

            

            
            

                
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        *[Tt]erm*|kitty|st|st-256color|foot|footclient|tilix|konsole)

            

            
            

                
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            DEFAULT_PASTE_KEYS="ctrl+shift+v" ;;

            

            
            

                
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        *)

            

            
            

                
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            DEFAULT_PASTE_KEYS="ctrl+v" ;;

            

            
            

                
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    esac

            

            
            

                
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    PASTE_KEYS=${ROFI_EMOJI_PASTE_KEYS:-$DEFAULT_PASTE_KEYS}

            

            
            

                
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    xdotool windowactivate --sync "$TARGET_WIN" 2>/dev/null

            

            
            

                
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    xdotool key --clearmodifiers --window "$TARGET_WIN" "$PASTE_KEYS" 2>/dev/null

            

            
            

                
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fi

            

            
            

                
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# Rewrite the recents file with this pick first and its older copy dropped.

            

            
            

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tmp="$RECENT.$$"

            

            
            

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printf '%s\t%s\n' "$CHAR" "$NAME" > "$tmp"

            

            
        
            

            
            

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rm -f "$tmp"

            

            
            

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command -v dunstify >/dev/null 2>&1 &&

            

            
            

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    dunstify -r 7302 "Copied $CHAR" "$NAME" ||

            

            
            

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    notify-send "Copied $CHAR" "$NAME"

            

            
            

                
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    dunstify -r 7302 "Pasted $CHAR" "$NAME" ||

            

            
            

                
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    notify-send "Pasted $CHAR" "$NAME"