IBUS EMOJI(7) User Commands IBUS EMOJI(7)
NAME
ibus-emoji - Call the IBus emoji utility by IBus Emojier
SYNOPSIS
/usr/libexec/ibus-ui-emojier [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
IBus Emojier provides a GUI to select an emoji by typing an emoji anno-
tation or choosing a character with mouse click and it's designed to
work as an extended IBus lookup window using Space, Enter, and Arrow
keys. The text entry accepts an emoji annotation or Unicode points. If
IBus panel is launched, IBus panel calls IBus Emojier with a shortcut
key or the right click menu and output the selected emoji on the previ-
ous focused text on an application. If IBus panel is not available
likes GNOME desktop, You can still use ibus emoji command to launch IBus
Emojier and it saves the selected emoji in your clipboard and you can
paste the emoji by a paste key likes Control-v.
Refer emoji section in ibus (1) for the command line options.
Homepage: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki
SETTINGS
ANNOTATION LANGUAGE
You can choose a language of emoji annotations with ibus-setup
(1).
FONT You can choose an emoji font with ibus-setup (1). E.g. "Noto
Color Emoji", "Android Emoji" font.
KEYBOARD OPERATIONS
Super-Period or Super-Semicolon
Launch IBus Emojier. The shortcut key can be customized by
ibus-setup (1).
Left, Right arrow, Control-b or Control-f
Select the next left or right category or emoji on the list if an
annotation is not typed. Otherwise move the cursor to the immde-
diate left or right in the typed annotation.
Down, Up arrow, Control-n or Control-p
Select the next top or down category or emoji on the list
Enter Commit the selected emoji.
Escape Go back to the category list from emoji list, erase the typed an-
notation, and close IBus Emojier.
Space Select the next left category or emoji on the list. If
Shift-Space is typed, a space chararacter can be inserted between
words in an annotation or Unicode points. E.g. 1f466 Shift-Space
1f3fb
PageDown, PageUp, Control-Shift-n or Control-Shift-p
Move to the next or previous page in the category or emoji list.
Head, End, Control-h or Control-e
Select the first or last emoji on the list if an annotation is
not typed. Otherwise move the cursor to the head or end in the
typed annotation.
Control-u
Erase the typed annotation.
Control-x or Control-v or Control-c
Cut the selected annotation to the clipboard with Control-x.
Paste the contents of the clipboard into the annotation entry
with Control-v. Copy the selected annotation to the clipboard
with Control-c.
Control-Shift-c
Copy the selected emoji to the clipboard.
BUGS
If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/ibus/ibus/is-
sues
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