Linux ecosystem lacks a minimal and straight forward way to pick emojis. Some options are an overkill, others require multiple steps to simply get emoji into a clipboard. This simple tool aims fill the gap. The interface relies on an awesome nolanlawson/emoji-picker-element project. Webview was used to bundle the whole application into a single executable file.
Only Linux is currently supported. The rest of the platforms are covered natively.
Download file from releases section and run it.
# download the latest release
curl -o emoji-picker -L https://github.com/va1da5/simple-emoji-picker/releases/download/v0.0.2/emoji-picker
# make it executable
chmod +x emoji-picker
# deploy it to your PATH
sudo mv emoji-picker /usr/local/bin/emoji-picker
# run it
emoji-pickerOnce started, simply click on an emoji to copy it to a clipboard. Paste it later in any text editor.
The binary can later be configured to be started using a keyboard shortcut, like Crtl+Super+Space, to make the process easier and similar to MacOS.
The development of the utility could by done without Golang or Node environments when using Docker. Makefile contains all the commands to build executable using only containers. Please see details below.
make build-all- Disable Windows resize option while keeping the preferred window size
- Start application window near a mouse cursor - harder than one would expect