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[#]: subject: (Use Mac-style emoji on Linux)
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[#]: via: (https://opensource.com/article/21/2/emoji-linux)
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[#]: author: (Matthew Broberg https://opensource.com/users/mbbroberg)
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Use Mac-style emoji on Linux
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Splatmoji provides an easy way to spice up your communication with
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emoji.
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![Emoji keyboard][1]
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Linux provides an amazing desktop experience by default. Although advanced users have the flexibility to choose their own [window manager][2], the day-to-day flow of Gnome is better than ever since the [GNOME 3.36 improvements][3]. As a long-time Mac enthusiast turned Linux user, that's huge.
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There is, however, one shortcut I use every day on a Mac that you won't find by default on Linux. It's a task I do dozens of times a day and an essential part of my digital communication. It's the emoji launcher.
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You might laugh when you see that, but stick with me.
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Most communication includes body language, and experts estimate upwards of 80% of what people remember comes from it. According to Advancement Courses' [History of emoji][4], people have been using "typographical art" since the 1800s. It's indisputable that in 1881, _Puck Magazine_ included four emotional faces for joy, melancholy, indifference, and astonishment. There is some disagreement about whether Abraham Lincoln's use of a winking smiley face, `;)`, in 1862 was a typo or an intentional form of expression. I could speculate further back into hieroglyphics, as this [museum exhibit][5] did. However you look at it, emoji and their ancestorial predecessors have conveyed complex human emotion in writing for a long time. That power is not going away.
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Macs make it trivial to add these odd forms of expression to text with a shortcut to insert emoji into a sentence quickly. Pressing **Cmd**+**Ctrl**+**Space** launches a menu, and a quick click completes the keystroke.
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GNOME does not (yet) have this functionality by default, but there is open source software to add it.
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## My first attempts at emoji on Linux
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So how can you add emoji-shortcut functionality to a Linux window manager? I began with trial and error. I tried about a dozen different tools along the way. I found [Autokey][6], which has been a great way to insert text using shortcuts or keywords (and I still use for that), but the [emoji extension][7] did not render for me (on Fedora or Pop!_OS). I hope one day it does, so I can use colon notation to insert emoji, like `:+1:` to get a 👍️.
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It turns out that the way emoji render and interact with font choices throughout a window manager is nontrivial. Partway through my struggle, I reached out to the GNOME emoji team (yes, there's a [team for emoji][8]!) and got a small taste of its complexity.
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I did, however, find a project that works consistently across multiple Linux distributions. It's called Splatmoji.
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## Splatmoji for inserting emoji
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[Splatmoji][9] lets me consistently insert emoji into my Linux setup exactly like I would on a Mac. Here is what it looks like in action:
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![Splatmoji scroll example][10]
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(Matthew Broberg, [CC BY-SA 4.0][11])
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It's written in Bash, which is impressive for all that it does. Splatmoji depends on a pretty interesting toolchain outside of Bash to avoid a lot of complexity in its main features. It uses:
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* **[rofi][12]** to provide a smooth window-switcher experience
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* [**xdotool**][13] to input the keystrokes into the window
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* [**xsel**][14] or [**xclipboard**][15] to copy the selected item
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* [**jq**][16], a JSON processor, if JSON escaping is called
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Thanks to these dependencies, Splatmoji is a surprisingly straightforward tool that calls these pieces in the right order.
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## Set up Splatmoji
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Splatmoji offers packaged releases for dnf and apt-based systems, but I set it up using the source code to keep up with the latest updates to the project:
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# Go to whatever directory you want to store the source code.
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# I keep everything in a ~/Development folder, and do so here.
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# Note that `mkdir -p` will make that folder if you haven't already.
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$ mkdir -p ~/Development
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$ cd ~/Development
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$ git clone <https://github.com/cspeterson/splatmoji>
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$ cd splatmoji/
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```
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Install the requirements above using the syntax for your package manager. I usually use [Homebrew][17] and add `/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/` to my path, but I will use `dnf` for this example:
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```
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`$ sudo dnf install rofi xdoto
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