Emoji input

There are various ways to input emoji (emoticons) in applications.

The two main ways are:

1. using the native GUI toolkit support
2. using ibus support

Some chat applications also provide their own UI for emoji input.

GNOME

Many Gtk 3 and 4 application support Emoji input via Ctrl+Period (Ctrl-. or Ctrl-;), which brings up an emoji chooser UI. Search is monolingual.

Also in almost any application (including browsers) you can use ibus Emoji input:

1. To activate ibus Emoji mode:
   • in Fedora 37 and later press Super+Period (Win-.)
   • in Fedora 36 and earlier press Ctrl+Period (Ctrl-.)
   • in current Fedora, Super+Semicolon (Win-;) also works
2. Then an "e" prompt appears, and then:
   • either enter an emoji keyword in pre-edit and next the Space key to see a list of candidates
   • or press Space alone to bring up the Emoji selector (Emojier)
     • note: currently in Wayland one has to use Ctrl+Shift+C in Emojier to copy the emoji and then paste it into the application (see bug).

Note that the ibus emoji input is not available in Live images (see bug).

KDE

KDE has an Emoji chooser activated by Super+Period (Win-.), which copies the emoji into the clipboard.

Qt apps currently have emoji font selection issues:

• tend to prefer monochrome emoji to color (bug)
• sometimes fail to render emoji (bug)

Search is bilingual.

LibreOffice

Sometimes monochrome emoji are preferred to colored emoji.

Flatpaks

Emoji input and rendering should generally work fine, with above privisos. Some older (electron) flatpaks may have ibus emoji input issues.

• Element does not seem to support Super+Period

Rendering references

• https://github.com/fedora-i18n/emoji-testcase
• http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-sequences.html