Emoji

Xmoji – plain X11 emoji keyboard

Xmoji is a simple emoji keyboard for X11 designed to work without relying on any toolkit or input method.

It doesn’t use a toolkit itself and instead renders its GUI using XRender requests.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • Left-clicking an emoji sends it to whatever X11 application currently has the keyboard focus using faked key press events. There are settings to automatically append a zero-width space and for ZWJ sequences to prepend another ZWJ, which might help some receiving X clients to get their display correct.
  • Middle-clicking an emoji selects it, so it can be transferred using the X11 “primary selection” mechanism (typically middle-click again where you want to insert it).
  • Emojis are displayed in tabs with one tab per main group as suggested in Unicode files.
  • Emojis with skin-tone variants are grouped again, only the neutral version is shown and right-clicking it shows a fly-out style menu with all available versions.
  • The search tab allows to find emojis by their name.
  • The history tab shows the most recently used emojis and is automatically persisted.

Website: github.com/Zirias/xmoji
Support:
Developer: Felix Palmen
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License

Xmoji in action

Xmoji is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

Everything concerning appearance and rendering is configured in the traditional X11 way, using X resources. Xmoji only looks for them on the root window of the running X session, so make sure you upload them with the xrdb tool.

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