Emote is a modern emoji picker for Linux 🚀

Written in GTK3, Emote is lightweight and stays out of your way.

Launch the emoji picker with the configurable keyboard shortcut `Ctrl+Alt+E`, and select one or more emojis to paste them into the currently focused app.

• 🍾 Built as a popup: quick invocation, and disappears when not needed, does not stay as a standalone window
• 🫠 Provide a large and up-to-date list of emojis retrieved from openmoji.org
• 🧠 Shows the last used emojis by default
• 🔎 Search text box automatically focused and ready to type when invoked
• ⌨️ Can use shortcuts to navigate and select emojis
• ✒️ Selected emoji automatically pasted to your currently focused app (on X11 only)

Please note that:

⚡️ Emote shows up faster when invoked using the built-in keyboard shortcut (`Ctrl+Alt+E` by default), than when using a manually registered keyboard shortcut.

🪟 Emote under Wayland cannot automatically paste the emoji into other apps, and also requires manual registering of a global keyboard shortcut - . This is due to intentional restrictions in the design of Wayland itself.