¡It works with GNOME! - Check this if you want to know how.

[cash-nico]

As you might tell by the title this is not a tech-genious speaking, nevertheless here's my simple steps for successfully setting up rofimoji in GNOME Desktop Environment.

It wasn't a complicated setup at all. I'm posting it here as somewhat of a journal log, to reinforce my learning and keep it stored somewhere I can come back into later for new GNOME Deployments. My first attempt was nothing but futile, because this particular setup for GNOME wasn't documented online. So maybe having this as a public note will help other GNOMIES out there.

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Solution was to read the documentation, and run rofimoji with GNOME-friendly cli arguments configured.

• Prerrequisite for GNOME is to have wofi installed instead of trying to run through rofi. GNOME is very picky about rofi, which by default wouldn't take any keyboard inputs (only mouse and mousewheel worked using rofi). You'll also need wl-clipboard and wtype installed.
• According to the documentation, how to run rofimoji through cli, one needs to use cli arguments, to set specific values that will make wofimoji usable in GNOME.
• ⚠️ If you call wofimoji through terminal without this, it will use it's default settings, which are not compatible with GNOME.

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The most important one is, one needs to tell rofimoji that it has to run through wofi, and not rofi. I used the following command,

rofimoji --selector wofi

If you have wofi installed, then rofimoji would start through wofi with this command instead of rofi, and now yes! It has keyboard input 💪🏼.

Additional troubleshooting and some tips.

• There's also the option to build a config file, which overrides default values for rofimoji, and this could spare you from typing the entire command... at the cost of committing rofimoji to use those fixed values; I have one, but it's setup for my hyprland sessions. You can always use command line arguments, and those will force/override whatever you have in the config file. So it's universal 😃
• My personal preference is to simply use long commands, and bind those commands to keys with GNOME's Keyboard Settings. See the example below,

rofimoji -a copy -f emojis emoticons basic_latin arrows dingbats miscellaneous_symbols -s ask --selector wofi

It calls rofimoji and sets its different arguments, so it starts with the following,

• -a, --action, to copy to clipboard,
• -f, --files to use a set of character lists from the rofimoji database, so it breaks out from simple emoji picker and assists with unicode in general emojis emoticons basic_latin arrows dingbats miscellaneous_symbols are what i'm testing right now. These depend on keyboard language and maybe font settings as well, some of them are broken but i'm convinced it's not rofimoji but my keyboard instead.
• -s --skin-tone I want it to ask if i'm black, white, yellow, or something inbetween.
• --selector wofi. As discussed it wouldn't work in GNOME without this.
• Then use that command, and paste it in GNOMEs Keyboard Bindings, going to Settings > Keyboard > (scroll down) Keyboard Bindings > Personalized Bindings > Add a new one,
  
  You can paste that same command build above and tell GNOME that you want to call that whenever you press Super + .

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• Also, there's a wofi config file that you can create ~/.config/wofi/style.css. If it's empty, you can paste this,

window {
    background-color: #1e1e2e;
    color: #cdd6f4;
    font-family: sans-serif;
    font-size: 14px;
}

#entry {
    padding: 5px;
}

#entry:selected {
    background-color: #89b4fa;
    color: #1e1e2e;
}

#input {
    background-color: #313244;
    color: #cdd6f4;
    border: none;
    padding: 5px;
}

• It will give a dark theme for it to use base on catppuccin themes *
• I loved this, but i'd love it more if it looked more like smile, the gnome extension. So we need it more "gnomish"*, one can tweak it to personal preference. I did ask AI to build me a GNOMEish one,

window {
    background-color: #1e1e1e;
    color: #eeeeee;
    font-family: Cantarell, sans-serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    border-radius: 8px;
    padding: 10px;
}

#input {
    background-color: #2e2e2e;
    color: #ffffff;
    border: none;
    padding: 6px 10px;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
    border-radius: 6px;
    outline: none;
}

#entry {
    padding: 8px 10px;
    margin: 4px 0;
    border-radius: 6px;
}

#entry:selected {
    background-color: #4c5cde;
    color: #ffffff;
}

It looks like the following:

• You can also follow the theming guide in documentation for this, but tweaking wofi is a better option because it's global, so if you need wofi for anything else beyond emoji-unicoding you can make this adjustment, and so your system as a whole will look nicer ✨✨✨.

Good luck with your GNOME tuning 🦾

[fdw]

Hey, thank you for this thorough guide!

Two small notes:

• If you only have wofi installed (and no rofi around), rofimoji will automatically choose it
• Have you tried the Wayland-fork of rofi?